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The rise of Special Economic Zones may be the most important global trend you haven't yet heard about.
Our new documentary, Zones of Progress, is released today and tells the fascinating story of these zones for the first time.
Special Economic Zones—parts of countries with
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How a leftist imagines “unregulated” life in a Free City.
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We’re pleased to announce the publication of our Free Private Cities whitepaper.
It outlines the concept of FPCs, makes the moral case for them, and addresses some common objections— all in 12 pages.
Please retweet to help us share this far and wide.
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Brazilians are currently raising the
#CidadesPrivadas
(
#PrivateCities
) hashtag. Seems they realized that the future of governance is private :)
To provide them with more material, we'll share our best articles in Portuguese on this thread. Starting with:
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Following
@nayibbukele
's
#BitcoinCity
announcement, our team travelled to the area near the site to find out how local merchants are using
#bitcoin
.
We learnt about how bitcoin is helping business owners increase sales, pay suppliers, improve hygiene, and protect against theft.
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In a politically divided world, the Free Private Cities Foundation offers an alternative vision for governance.
At its heart is the idea that people should be free to choose the kind of governance that they want based on the principle of mutual consent.
Continued👇
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ANNOUNCEMENT:
As of today, we’re officially relaunching as the Free Cities Foundation.
Our mission is to support innovation in governance that leads to greater human freedom and prosperity.
To find out more visit:
#freecities
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Every tyrant in history has claimed that they want power in order to do good.
Yet the harm done by ordinary criminals is negligible in comparison to that inflicted by zealots in command of the state apparatus.
Voluntary societies are a peaceful alternative to centralized power.
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Maybe this isn’t the best way to fund public services.👇
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Are you an architecture student or graduate looking to gain professional experience and learn market-based urbanism in practice?
We're currently looking for interns to help us with our master-plan. You can email us at info
@freeprivatecities
.com to apply.
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Montenegro's new digital nomad visa:
2 years & a personal income tax rate of zero.
What's not to like?
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A Free Private City is not a utopia.
It is a business idea whose functional elements are already known.
What we propose is to transfer these elements to a new market: the market for living together.
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Free Private Cities oferecem a prestação de serviços de governança em base contratual, com as obrigações de ambas as partes descritas em um acordo voluntário.
Venha participar do 1° evento do Brasil Empreende em 2021, hoje as 19h!
Inscreva-se em:
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Free Private Cities protect life, liberty and property, but otherwise give citizens the freedom to do as they choose.
Citizens obey simple rules and the city guarantees them basic security, so that they can focus on what they do best.
This short video explains how they work👇
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Will we ever see
#FreeCities
at sea?
Mason Leschyna makes the case for pragmatism on the podcast this week...
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States must develop from acting as demigods to acting as service providers, otherwise they have no future.
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What is your line in the sand?
What would it take for you to sell everything and leave your home country for a better life abroad?
This week on the podcast
@MrTimothyAllen
talks to a family who left Canada to start a new life in
#ElSalvador
Listen here:
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"The lowering of time preference is what initiates the process of human civilization and allows humans to cooperate, prosper, and live in peace." –
@saifedean
FPCs aim to help people to lower their time preference by protecting investments and savings.
@anilsaidso
puts it well👇
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Our societal structures are hard to change from within, even when they no longer serve us.
That's why we need to build parallel structures – like Free Cities – that offer a better alternative.
Our new video, filmed at
@LibertyIOL
2022, explores: .
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3/ Monetary Freedom
Free Private Cities do not have central banks.
Citizens are free to use whatever currency they prefer including fiat currency, Bitcoin or gold.
Gradual deflation becomes a normal part of life, with purchasing power increasing due to productivity gains.
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How do Free Private Cities differ from regular cities?
A key difference is that the relationship between city operators and citizens is defined by a “Citizen Contract”.
This 12-tweet thread explains how this contract works and why it protects life, liberty and property.
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For the past week, our team have been in El Salvador seeing firsthand how
#bitcoin
is empowering people across the socioeconomic spectrum.
In a country where 70% of the population are unbanked, bitcoin is allowing people to save for the future and take control of their finances.
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Yesterday
@Ideias_Radicais
published an article by Titus Gebel on the current protest waves in Chile and Hong Kong. You can read it at (PT-BR):
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1/ In Free Private Cities there would be no central bank and citizens would be free to transact in the currency of their choosing.
This thread explains why central bank manipulation of money is counterproductive and why FPCs would benefit from a real market in interest rates.
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"I was there in Buenos Aires when everything collapsed. I saw actual chaos & anarchy in the streets.
I got robbed by my apartment guard. I got robbed by the taxi driver on the way to the airport when I tried to escape.
I saw how the Peso just lost all its purchasing power in
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Thank you all for helping us reach 2000 twitter followers!
This milestone is a reminder of the traction and support Free Private Cities has been gaining worldwide. Once just an idea, today we can say that each day we get closer to a freer world, filled with Free Private Cities
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On Nov 20,
@nayibbukele
announced plans to build a
#BitcoinCity
in the Gulf of Fonseca.
Juan has has lived in the area all his life.
He talked to our team about bitcoin adoption, El Salvador's 2001 transition from the colón to the dollar, and plans to develop Bitcoin City.
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Africa's future is urban, and it seems to be private. With many new private urban projects turning into SEZ's, the continent's rapidly growing population will enjoy lasting economic development that only liberty and self-determination can achieve.
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Os brasileiros estão atualmente levantando a hashtag
#CidadesPrivadas
. Parece que eles perceberam que o futuro da governança é privado :)
Para lhes fornecer mais material, vamos compartilhar nossos melhores artigos em português nesta thread. Começando com:
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In a Free Private City, this would be reality since day one
WOW! Miami Mayor
@FrancisSuarez
just got Miami into Bitcoin.
- Employees paid in BTC
- Residents pay fees in BTC
- Taxes in BTC
- City Treasury in BTC
Absolutely unreal. The first Bitcoin municipal in the United States 🔥
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Anyone who denies people the right to a self-determined life is simply authoritarian, even if they call themselves “liberal” or “democratic”.
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When governments compete for you..
We're offering 5,000 free passports (equivalent to $5 billion in our passport program) to highly skilled scientists, engineers, doctors, artists, and philosophers from abroad.
This represents less than 0.1% of our population, so granting them full citizen status, including
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"My background is not in finance. I started learning about money because of the pandemic.
They took my rights then & I knew that they would take my rights over my property & my money next. So I had to get educated about it.
And that's what I recommend everyone to do."
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When taxes are uncertain, citizens are less able to plan for the future and businesses are less willing to invest.
The global tax advisory market alone is worth $20bn, but this figure only scratches the surface of tax's true costs.
Our short video outlines an alternative👇
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What is the nearest thing to a Free Private City that exists today?
Ciudad Morazán in Honduras has been granted a high degree of autonomy.
This weekend, our team made a visit to the site to check out progress.
The first residents are moving in and businesses are being set up.
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Private Cities: A Path to Liberty has been translated and published in Portuguese by
@Ideias_Radicais
. You can read it at:
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The Free Cities movement is gathering momentum.
Our recent conference showcased 14 Free City projects spanning Europe, the Americas, and Africa.
We're planning an even bigger event in Prague next year from Oct 25-27. Tickets go on sale today!
🌐.
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Rather than relying on a hypothetical social contract that is only changed by one side (the government), Free Cities have a real contract that treats citizens and City Operators as equals.
Read our whitepaper to find out more:
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The Free Private Cities Foundation is recruiting a part-time social media manager.
If you have excellent written English, understand the Austrian School of Economics and are looking for remote work, then we'd like to hear from you.
Apply via the link:
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In June, Rosa Aguilar became the first commercial resident of Ciudad Morazán.
Our team was able to meet Rosa six months on and see how her business has grown.
She now has a new shop, has invested in new equipment and is employing staff.
June blog:
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"Without government, who would build the roads?"
Our team recently visited Coral Beach Village on the south shore of Utila.
Restaurant manager Jenn, told us how the community came together to build a 2-3 mile road at a fraction of the cost of a similar government led-project.
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In this thread we outline ten principles that define our vision for this alternative governance model, and why territories that adopt them stand to become more prosperous, just and socially cohesive.
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3/ Having both worked in academia, Rahim and
@saifedean
talked about the problems created by government funding of universities and the skewed incentives at work in the academic publishing industry today.
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How would democracy manifest itself within Free Private Cities?
What different governance models are possible and how do FPCs relate to the "
#Bitcoin
Citadel" meme?
Rahim Taghizadegan (
@scholarium_at
) and
@saifedean
discussed these questions on The Bitcoin Standard Podcast👇
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4/ No Mandated Licensing
Without licensing requirements, entrepreneurs can provide services in areas such as healthcare, education and energy in the manner that citizens choose.
Innovative businesses such as Uber and Airbnb flourish, and help keep living costs for citizens low.
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1/ A Genuine Social Contract
The defining aspect of a Free Private City is that there is a voluntary, contractual relationship between the city's citizens and those that govern it.
On the one hand, city operators can decide on criteria for citizenship, and their fee level...
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Imagine a world without the frustration, wasted time, legal fees and fraud associated with tax returns.
Free Private Cities remove the deadweight loss of calculating taxes.
Instead, citizens have a simple contract for city services and know in advance what they need to pay.
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2/ Flat Governance Fees
Rather than being subject to a complex array of taxes that can be changed at the whim of politicians, citizens pay a flat annual citizenship fee to cover basic city administration costs.
Elaborate tax compliance industries become a thing of the past.
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7/ Freedom from Ideological Division
Since residents know that they cannot interfere in the contracts of fellow citizens, political activism, missionary zeal, distributional struggles and the stirring-up of social groups against each other loses its appeal.
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On the other, the services provided by the city operator and its powers are clearly defined.
Terms are outlined in a real contract which both citizen and operator sign before beginning their partnership.
Once signed, neither party can change the contract unilaterally.
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This quote by
@JeffBooth
sums it up: "There is no fundamental law in physics that requires inflation."
Citizens of Free Private Cities would be free to protect themselves from inflation by saving and transacting in non-inflationary alternatives to fiat currency such as
#Bitcoin
.
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"It might be much easier to start a new country than it is to fix an existing one."
@JedlickaVit
talks micronation-building on our final podcast of 2023...
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Be part of the movement for change by joining us at the Liberty in Our Lifetime conference.
Oct 14-15 in Prague.
In-person and online tickets available.🔗
@LibertyIOL
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5/ Free trade
The city places no barriers on trade with the rest of the world.
Everyone can import overseas goods duty-free.
Since goods can be bought at world prices, the cost of living falls further, helping even low-income earners achieve a high quality of life.
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"I really don't care, from a symbolic perspective, what flag flies on my boat. What I care about is escaping the tyranny of governments & achieving freedom."
Practical strategies for living on the ocean.
On the podcast this week...
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Too often politicians disregard Sowell's first lesson of economics by promising voters a free lunch.
At FPC, we understand that prosperity results not from coercive redistribution of existing resources, but by creating the conditions for peaceful generation of new wealth.
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In modern states, the "social contract" between citizens and their governments can only be changed by one party. And that party is not you.
The Free Private Cities model would replace this one-sided relationship with a partnership of equals.
@titusgebel
explains how.👇
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On the podcast this week we have Natalie Danelishen (
@Chesschick01
). Topics discussed are
@elonmusk
, The Federal Reserve, Bitcoin, Mises, Homeschooling, War, more... Give it a listen:
Youtube:
Spotify:
Blog:
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The Swiss city of Lugano has announced that it is adopting Bitcoin as legal tender.
This will allow citizens and companies to use alternatives to state-controlled money. Lugano is the latest in a wave of jurisdictions to adopt these alternatives.
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We’re pleased to share that Natalie Danelishen has joined our team and will be supporting our day-to-day operations.
Welcome
@Chesschick01
!
I'm pleased to announce that I've joined the
@freecitiesfound
team. The Free Cities Foundation supports the development of Free Cities, which are self-governing territories that uphold individual rights and freedoms. I highly recommend you follow.
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*** SAVE THE DATE ***
We've secured an extra special venue for this year's Liberty in Our Lifetime Conference.
Saturday 14th & Sunday 15th October 2023 at Empire Hall in Central Prague.
For a flavour of our 2022 event watch this:
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Free Cities are improving the lives of those living in difficult circumstances.
Our latest blog post explores how Anthoni Lopez was able to escape a turbulent situation in Choluteca, Honduras by becoming part of Ciudad Morazán's community.
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8/ Justice
The justice system focuses on ensuring criminals compensate their victims directly.
Since there is no unconditional right of abode in the city, those who do not comply with court judgments can be evicted, lessening the need for criminal incarceration.
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Our 10 principles do not propose a utopian, top-down vision for societal control.
They instead provide a model that allows for constructive competition between small-scale governance systems, based on a voluntary partnership between citizens and those who govern their territory.
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Watch our new documentary, Zones of Progress, in full below.
The rise of Special Economic Zones may be the most important global trend you haven't yet heard about.
Our new documentary, Zones of Progress, is released today and tells the fascinating story of these zones for the first time.
Special Economic Zones—parts of countries with
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Free Private Cities will offer a refuge to victims of state persecution.
They will succeed because they represent a fairer, more ethical alternative to the status quo.
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10/ Freedom of Labor
No one is denied the right to work by laws that impose restrictions on wage rates.
It becomes easier for employers to offer apprenticeships to young people looking to get a start in the job market, or to the less able seeking the dignity of employment
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It's Friday.. that means it's
#FreeCities
PODCAST day...
This week
@MrTimothyAllen
talks to
@dusan_matuska
about leaving Europe & moving to Honduras where he has set up a Free City
#Bitcoin
education centre.
Listen here:
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Our new landmark article, 'Seasteading: The Movement, History, and Perspectives,' is published today.
It offers a 'deep dive' into the fascinating story of the seasteading movement, featuring
@SealandGov
,
@E1war
, Atlas Island and
@OceanBuilders
.
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What are Free Private Cities?
In this new interview
@TheAustrian3
talks to Rahim Taghizadegan (
@scholarium_at
) about the definition of Free Private Cities and the extent to which the principles that guide them are being implemented in practice.
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Economists have no rational model for dealing with unowned "public goods".
Without profit or loss mechanisms, such goods are not subject to economic calculation and face a "tragedy of the commons" problem.
FPCs resolve this by making property rights comprehensive.
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6/ Citizen-led Social Care
Low governance fees and security of property rights lead to greater prosperity.
Citizens acquire more wealth which allows them to insure against illness, death, need of care or accidents, and to support others in need through charitable projects.
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9/ Independent Arbitration
Disputes between citizens and city operators are heard before independent arbitration tribunals, as is customary in international commercial law.
If the operator ignores verdicts or abuses their power, their citizens leave, and they risk bankruptcy.
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How have the governance models of London, Hong Kong, Singapore and Dubai helped them to succeed and what can we learn from their experience?
@saifedean
shared his thoughts on this question with FPC president Rahim Taghizadegan (
@scholarium_at
).
See:
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The website for the Free Private Cities Architecture Symposium is now live! The event will take place on July 18, starting at 08:00 CST/13:00 GMT. You can register for free here:
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Violations of property rights undermine our ability to live fulfilling lives, even when those violations are legitimized by the state.
In Free Private Cities one who does not harm others has the right to live free from interference, even by the government or the majority.
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Honduras Próspera: Raphaël Lima from
@Ideias_Radicais
made a video for the Brazilian public discussing the recently launched governance platform. You can watch the whole video at:
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"A Private City may be established in the world as early as 2019."
The Brazilian Youtube channel
@Ideias_Radicais
published a video about Free Private Cities! Watch the video at*:
*Content in Portuguese
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Our proposal to create Free Cities is not utopian.
We don't try to change human nature, we seek to extend time-tested business practices to a new market: the market of living together.
Join us in building societies based on self-determination, voluntarism, and non-aggression.
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"What you can't do today is experiment. I don't know which system is the best. I don't know. I would love to find out. I would like to see more experiments but it's next to impossible to get this done."
@LeaPetras
talks diversity of governance on the podcast this week...
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Atlas Island is a seasteading project that aims to create a new kind of voluntary society.
Their new website outlines the five stages they will pass through as they transition from an online community to a fully independent offshore community.
Visit
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To find out more about the ideas discussed in this thread, we invite you to check out
@titusgebel
's book Free Private Cities: .
To receive updates on the work of the foundation, you can sign up to our mailing list via our website: .
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This was Rosa’s shop six months ago.
By starting out with something cheap and simple, Rosa was able to generate revenue, save funds and invest in expanding her business.
Incremental urbanism in action.
@ktlannan
@StrongTowns
@clmarohn
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How can private cities scale? Can they also be subdivided? What about energy provision? How are gun laws?
All these questions and more were answered in the online discussion with the
@upschweiz
. You can watch the video on their channel:
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@JMilei
explains why it is a mistake to view the economy as a pie of fixed size.
In Free Cities, we aim to grow the pie by unbinding the hands of entrepreneurs and allowing the market discovery process to work.
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Most countries are plagued by seemingly irreconcilable conflict over politics, with different groups competing to extract wealth and resources from one another.
Rather than trying to change the status quo directly, we propose building something new: Free Private Cities.
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Governments are not demigods.
They are collections of fallible individuals whose interests may not align to those of the public.
We need to start thinking differently about government, treating governance as a service like any other.
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1/ Rahim is the last Austrian School economist in the direct tradition operating in Austria.
He and
@saifedean
discussed the school's history and status in Austria today; Austria's atmosphere during the inter-war years, and why so many Austrian economists migrated to the US.
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The Liberty in Our Lifetime conference takes place in Prague from October 14-15.
Read on for a deep dive into what to expect from the event...
Liberty in Our Lifetime is a conference that allows you to dive into the fascinating world of Free Cities: self-governing territories
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Alain Bertaud worked as a leading urban planner for half a century.
In his 2018 book, Order Without Design, he argued that we should limit the role of planners in city development.
This thread outlines some of his book's key insights.
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What do Bitcoin and Free Cities have in common?
@petermiyoung
and
@MrTimothyAllen
travelled to El Salvador to talk to attendees of the
@AdoptingBTC
conference about the connection.
Want to find out more? Visit .
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As we recently announced in our last Newsletter, the Free Private Cities Foundation is proud to hold it's first Story Contest:
Write about fictional events in the future that are somehow related to Free Private Cities;
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