
Pontus & Ulrika Lindblom: Vote With Your Feet
"That's the ideal. That's what I think would work best... if you could only vote with your feet instead of voting in a political democratic system."
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"That's the ideal. That's what I think would work best... if you could only vote with your feet instead of voting in a political democratic system."

"These are the Cypherpunk ideals... to use modern day technologies to define and establish the property rights of individuals in cyberspace. And to make sure that theft and surveillance are not possible anymore."

"I think that the main trait of unschooled kids is that they ask questions and they want to find out more, whereas in school they are told what to do. It's a totally different way of growing up."

"If you go to court today, it's usually a battle with one winner and one loser... But I would like to explain to people that that's not always necessary and that there are situations where you can both be better off."

"Every good story is ultimately libertarian in nature."

"One thing you are in control of is your attitude and your mind. You can always find a little bit of freedom there. That's really where liberty starts and ends."

"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".

"Do you have a Plan B? Do you have a separate form of money? Can you move?... Are you building networks of security & trust?"

" 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 "

"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."

"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'..."

"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?'"

"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...

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"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."