Josef Tětek: Enemies of the State, Friends of Liberty
"I am very well aware that the state isn't going anywhere in our lifetimes. It will be a gradual process where it will become more and more irrelevant. This is how I would like things to evolve".
Episode Archive
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Alena Vranova: Navigating the Future
"Do you have a Plan B? Do you have a separate form of money? Can you move?... Are you building networks of security & trust?"
John Dennehy: Building a Parallel Educational Structure
" For us the ultimate mission is to empower individuals. Bitcoin and Bitcoin education is a tool to make that happen... But the end goal is to create individuals that have self-sovereignty, that have personal responsibility and that have agency in their own lives "
Zussel Ramos: Landing Your Dream Job in a Free City
"I am a firm believer that Próspera will change Honduras. Honestly, we have suffered so much. So many governments have hurt us. I think that Próspera is the solution."
Sean Pawley: Banking on the Free City Model
"What I want is experimentation. I don't think that anyone has discovered some kind of optimal method of governing a specific area. I don't think anyone has found that yet. So what I want is... 'Let a thousand flowers bloom'..."
Dusan Matuska: Bitcoin Education in a Free City
"More and more people are interested and I think that COVID accelerated this and made people think about: 'OK, should I live where I live right now?... Or do I want to live in this place with this governance model?'"
Jorge Colindres: Mayor of a Free City
"It's good freedom, for sovereignty, for democracy to not have all the power concentrated in the national government. [...] There's an understanding of sovereignty that's really the core in this whole issue. I think sovereignty resides in the people and I think it should be very well distributed through various inst...
Tom & Emily Lahdenranta: COVID Refugees
"I realized they would rather let us be homeless and begging on the street than not do what we are told. And to me that was so wrong and so evil that I was like, if they can do that, they wouldn't have any issues taking our kids away if they decided we were unfit to parent them based on whatever they decided."
Stephan Livera: Free Cities & Bitcoin
"2020 was that year when basicly I was doing my research and thinking, OK, I need my escape plan. I need a way to get out of here."
Christian Betancourt: Building a Free City Bank
"You make it a community issue, and you assign the responsibility to a particular entity. You don't just leave it in the hands of the central government. You leave it in the hands of a local organization that everybody knows each other, so if you're not doing things right, you're going to be ashamed."
Ricardo González: Working in Próspera & History of ZEDEs
"So my revenue is dependent on your success and your success depends on my regulation. So I want to make sure that I have the best regulation and the best regulatory environment possible for your business to be successful."
Peter Young: Free Cities Overview
"We think that for historical reasons the world has converged on a small number of governance models and we think the world would be better if people could choose the kind of governance model they live under and not be limited by the range of choices that are available today."