An exit tax is a government admission of failure: they couldn’t make the place attractive, so they make leaving expensive.

Tim Stern is on the podcast this week. We talk incentives, capital flight, and why places like Margarita Island become magnets.

https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c

"Get out of Europe".

Tim Stern on the pod this week. Early access today for sub's on v4v...

https://fountain.fm/episode/UwKT4mXAS3H0yqrBTz8c

Seasteading only scales if it exports something the world wants.

Mitchell Suchner (ArkPad) makes the case for “economics first” and lays out an incremental path: aquaculture as early cashflow, tourism as a demand engine, and later ocean industries (mineral extraction from seawater, offshore data infrastructure, autonomous logistics).

We also get into stability/storm design and the governance implications of flags and jurisdiction at sea.

Listen: https://fountain.fm/episode/6NPTpzR5jaNlv4fmknjg

Seasteading isn't just a fad.
Early access to this week's pod for subscribers on @Fountain
https://fountain.fm/episode/6NPTpzR5jaNlv4fmknjg

So many infinite pizza peeps coming out of the woodwork recently.

GM.

What do the Free Cities crowd and the Network State crowd actually share in common?

Vikram Bharati argues that the overlap is where the most interesting things are happening right now...

https://fountain.fm/episode/XU4TuLuElDrpEQJkK3Mj

AI won’t inevitably create tyrants.
It’s just as likely to erase ignorance, making the quietly prepared too expensive to control.

New episode just dropped.
Early access for subs until Friday, then on general release to everyone else...
You can support the show with a monthly subscription on @Fountain...
https://fountain.fm/episode/XU4TuLuElDrpEQJkK3Mj

Mikkel insists that Panama is the best place in the world for both Bitcoiners & libertarians...

https://fountain.fm/episode/trD1QTmuCAShTIli5ixg