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The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption.
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Unfortunately, you will not be able to depend upon normal information channels to give you an accurate and timely understanding of the decay of the nationstate.
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Each $5,000 in tax paid annually reduces your lifetime net worth by $2.4 million if you can earn 10 percent annually from your investments.
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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When the state finds itself unable to meet its committed expenditure by raising tax revenues, it will resort to other, more desperate measures. Among them is printing money.
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You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself.
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Those without savings who rely upon government to pay their retirement benefits and medical care will in all probability suffer a fall in living standards.
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In an environment where the greatest source of wealth will be the ideas you have in your head rather than physical capital alone, anyone who thinks clearly will potentially be rich.
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In an environment where the greatest source of wealth will be the ideas you have in your head rather than physical capital alone, anyone who thinks clearly will potentially be rich.
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When the state finds itself unable to meet its committed expenditure by raising tax revenues, it will resort to other, more desperate measures.
Among them is printing money.
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When Sovereign Individuals can deal across borders in a realm with no physical reality, they will no longer need to tolerate the long-rehearsed practice of governments degrading the value of their money through inflation.
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Corruption, moral decline, and inefficiency appear to be signal features of the final stages of a system.
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Governments will not only lose their power to tax many forms of income and capital; they are also destined to lose their power of compulsion over money.
In the past, megapolitical transitions have been associated with changes in the character of money.
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You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why.
If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself.
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When the age of Information War finally arrives, it is unlikely that its antagonists will only be governments.
A company like Microsoft certainly has a greater ability to conduct Information War than 90 percent of the world's nationstates.
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If we fail to perceive the great transition going on around us,
it is partly because we do not desire to see.
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Government will have to adapt to the growing autonomy of the individual.
Taxing capacity will plunge by 50%~70%
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As cybercommerce begins, it will lead inevitably to cybermoney.
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Market forces
not political majorities
will compel societies to reconfigure themselves in ways that public opinion will neither comprehend nor welcome.
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Within years, let alone decades, it will be widely understood that almost anyone of talent could accumulate a much higher net worth and enjoy a better life by abandoning high-tax nationstates.
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As cybercommerce begins, it will lead inevitably to cybermoney.
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No one on the Internet knows or cares whether the author of a new software program is black, white, male, female, homosexual, or a vegetarian dwarf.
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In the 1980s, it was illegal in the United States to send a fax message.
The U.S. Post Office considered faxes to be first-class mail, over which the 157
U.S. Post Office claimed an ancient monopoly.
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Unfortunately, you will not be able to depend upon normal information channels to give you an accurate and timely understanding of the decay of the nationstate.
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The rewards for rare skills have increased and are increasing.
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The death of politics will mean the end of central bank regulation and manipulation of money.
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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When Sovereign Individuals can deal across borders in a realm with no physical reality, they will no longer need to tolerate the long-rehearsed practice of governments degrading the value of their money through inflation.
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When Sovereign Individuals can deal across borders in a realm with no physical reality, they will no longer need to tolerate the long-rehearsed practice of governments degrading the value of their money through inflation.
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New technologies will allow the holders of wealth to bypass the national monopolies that have issued and regulated money in the modern period. In the new millennium, cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede flat money issued by governments.
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This new form of money will reset the odds, reducing the capacity of the world's nationstates to determine who becomes a Sovereign Individual.
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Now that information technology is displacing mass production, it is logical to expect the twilight of mass democracy.
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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The death of inflation will take away the disguised profits that inflation previously conveyed to those who were the monopolistic issuers of currency.
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To prepare yourself for the world that is coming you must understand why it will be different from what most experts tell you.
That involves looking closely at the hidden causes of change.
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In the medieval period, education was firmly under the control of the Church.
In the modern age, education has been under the control of the state.
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There is no technological reason why any individual or any country should leave his financial deposits or transactions at the mercy of the U.S.
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Imagine a special passport issued by the League of Sovereign Individuals, identifying the holder as a person under the protection of the league.
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The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption.
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The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption.
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The emergence of digital money will not only defeat inflation once and for all; it will also contract leverage in the banking systems of the world.
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Who will the losers be in the Information Age?
In general terms, the tax consumers will be losers.
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In the Information Age, a “job” will be a task to do, not a position you “have.”
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Equally, in the future, one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth,
but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.
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The brightest, most successful and ambitious will emerge as truly Sovereign Individuals.
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Just as government today offers poor value for the money it collects,
so did the Church at the end of the fifteenth century.
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The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption.
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In the 1980s, it was illegal in the United States to send a fax message.
The U.S. Post Office considered faxes to be first-class mail, over which the 157
U.S. Post Office claimed an ancient monopoly.
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Corruption, moral decline, and inefficiency appear to be signal features of the final stages of a system.
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Unfortunately, you will not be able to depend upon normal information channels to give you an accurate and timely understanding of the decay of the nationstate.
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When governments can no longer depreciate currency by printing money or defraud savers by expanding credit at will through captive banking systems, they will lose a major part of their indirect capacity to commandeer resources.
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Remember, each $5,000 of annual tax payments paid over forty years slashes your net worth by $2.2 million, assuming you could realize just a 10 percent return on your capital.
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You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself.
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The cybereconomy, rather than China, could well be the greatest economic phenomenon of the next thirty years.
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In the future
One of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth
BUT whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.
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The dangers of information war will mostly be dangers to large-scale industrial systems that operate with central command and control.
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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If we fail to perceive the great transition going on around us,
it is partly because we do not desire to see.
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In the 1980s, it was illegal in the United States to send a fax message.
The U.S. Post Office considered faxes to be first-class mail, over which the 157 U.S. Post Office claimed an ancient monopoly.
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You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why.
If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself.
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Faster than all but a few now imagine, microprocessing will subvert and destroy the nation-state, creating new forms of social organization in the process
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The idea of property emerged as an inevitable consequence of farming
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Governments will not only lose their power to tax many forms of income and capital; they are also destined to lose their power of compulsion over money.
In the past, megapolitical transitions have been associated with changes in the character of money.
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If we fail to perceive the great transition going on around us,
it is partly because we do not desire to see.
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In the 1980s, it was illegal in the United States to send a fax message.
The U.S. Post Office considered faxes to be first-class mail, over which the 157
U.S. Post Office claimed an ancient monopoly.
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Just as attempts to preserve the power of knights in armor were doomed to fail in the face of gunpowder weapons, so the modern notions of nationalism and citizenship are destined to be short-circuited by microtechnology.
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Unfortunately, you will not be able to depend upon normal information channels to give you an accurate and timely understanding of the decay of the nationstate.
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Within years, let alone decades, it will be widely understood that almost anyone of talent could accumulate a much higher net worth and enjoy a better life by abandoning high-tax nationstates.
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In an environment where the greatest source of wealth
will be the ideas you have in your head
rather than physical capital alone
anyone who thinks clearly will potentially be rich
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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If you fail to transcend conventional thinking at a time when conventional thinking is losing touch with reality,
then you will be more likely to fall prey to an epidemic of disorientation that lies ahead.
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Each $5,000 in tax paid annually reduces your lifetime net worth by $2.4 million if you can earn 10 percent annually from your investments.
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The idea that humans must naturally place themselves in an "invented" community called a nation will come to be seen by the cosmopolitan elite as eccentric and unreasonable in the next century, as it would have been through most of human existence.
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When the state finds itself unable to meet its committed expenditure by raising tax revenues, it will resort to other, more desperate measures. Among them is printing money.
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To a greater extent than is commonly realized, the immobility of people and their assets has informed the way we see the world.
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Cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede flat money issued by governments.
Only the poor will be victims of inflation.
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in the future
one of the milestones by which you measure your financial success will be not just now many zeroes you can add to your net worth
but whether you can structure your affairs in a way that enables you to realize full individual autonomy and independence.
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In the future,
when most wealth can be earned anywhere,
and even spent anywhere,
governments that attempt to charge too much as the price of domicile will merely drive away their best customers.
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Cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede flat money issued by governments.
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As individuals themselves begin to serve as their own news editors
selecting what topics and news stories are of interest
it is far less likely that they will choose to indoctrinate themselves in the urgencies of sacrifice for the nationstate.
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Thinking about the end of the current system is taboo.
To understand the great transformation to the Information Age, you must transcend conventional thinking and conventional information sources.
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You cannot depend upon conventional information sources to give you an objective and timely warning about how the world is changing and why. If you wish to understand the great transition now under way, you have little choice but to figure it out for yourself.
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The end of an era is usually a period of intense corruption.
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A sovereign individual is a person who is free from government control and is able to make their own decisions about their life and property.
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When governments can no longer depreciate currency by printing money or defraud savers by expanding credit at will through captive banking systems, they will lose a major part of their indirect capacity to commandeer resources.
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Control over economic resources will shift away from the state to persons of superior skills and intelligence, as it becomes increasingly easy to create wealth by adding knowledge to products.
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The state has grown used to treating its taxpayers as a farmer treats his cows
keeping them in a field to be milked
Soon, the cows will have wings
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Just as government today offers poor value for the money it collects,
so did the Church at the end of the fifteenth century.
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The collapse of morality and growing corruption among leaders of Western governments is not a random development.
It is evidence that the potential of the nationstate is exhausted.
Even many of its leaders no longer believe the platitudes they mouth.
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Governments will ultimately have little choice but to treat populations in territories they serve more like customers, and less in the way that organized criminals treat the victims of a shakedown racket.
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Cognitive skills will be rewarded as never before. It will be more important to think clearly, as ideas will become a form of wealth.
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The nationstate will ultimately collapse in fiscal crisis.
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Those in power have seldom reacted peacefully to developments that undermined their authority.
They are not likely to now.
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This new form of money will reset the odds, reducing the capacity of the world's nationstates to determine who becomes a Sovereign Individual.
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Corruption, moral decline, and inefficiency appear to be signal features of the final stages of a system.
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As the bonds of the old system dissolve, the social ethos dissolves with it, creating an environment in which people in high places may combine public purposes with private criminal activity.
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Because location will mean much less in the Information Society, there will be a diminished role in the future for all organizations that operate within rather than beyond geographic boundaries.
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When the age of Information War finally arrives, it is unlikely that its antagonists will only be governments.
A company like Microsoft certainly has a greater ability to conduct Information War than 90 percent of the world's nationstates.
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The state will no doubt take desperate measures at first to tether and hobble its escaping herd.
It will employ covert and even violent means to restrict access to liberating technologies.
Such expedients will work only temporarily, if at all.
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Based upon the history of other dominant systems facing collapse, those who opt for the ultimum refugium and get out early will be better off in the end.
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