138: Startup Countries with Patri Friedman

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:

[1:44] What is seasteading?

[6:37] Why not just buy land from a country rather than doing everything out at sea?

[10:36] Patri's goal is seeing governments competing for citizens by treating them best

[14:13] How do you deal with security when you're in the middle of the ocean?

[18:34] What are these seasteads going to do for currency?

Website:

www.Seasteading.org

www.Twitter.com/Patrissimo