273: How to Build a Startup Country with Patri Friedman
American Monetary Association
English - May 31, 2019 16:00 - 22 minutes - 16.2 MB - ★★★★★ - 41 ratingsInvesting Business Education federalreserveact interestrates easymonetarypolicy federalreserve federalreservebank federalreservemeeting federalreservesystem fiscalpolicy fiscalvsmonetarypolicy mon Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Jason Hartman talks with Patri Friedman, Executive Director of The Seasteading Institute, about creating new countries using the seasteading technique. Patri discusses how the concept would work in today's environment and why it's not absurd to think of a country being created on the water. It's coming sooner than you expect.
Key Takeaways:
[1:12] What is seasteading?
[6:05] Why not just buy land from a country rather than doing everything out at sea?
[10:04] Patri's goal is seeing governments competing for citizens by treating them best
[13:41] How do you deal with security when you're in the middle of the ocean?
[18:02] What are these seasteads going to do for currency?
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