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🗓️ 10 July 2017
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Maybe the time has come to try something radically different, instead of doubling down on the same old strategies. That's the view of Joe Quirk of the Seasteading Institute, who discusses the potential for humanity in, yes, floating nations.
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0:28.9 | Hi everybody, Tom Woods here. We had Joe Cork on some time ago to talk about C-steading. I'm |
0:34.3 | going to let him tell you about what that is. You may know about it already. |
0:38.5 | But I want you to know he is out this year with an excellent book written with Patry Friedman, |
0:45.1 | who is the grandson of Milton Friedman. And it's called seesteading, how floating nations will |
0:50.8 | restore the environment, enrich the poor, cure the sick, and liberate humanity from |
0:56.4 | politicians. It is an extremely interesting book. I was pleasantly surprised because I thought |
1:04.1 | it would just be about the technical ins and outs of how you would arrange for sea-steading, |
1:08.7 | but instead it's all these different ways that getting just |
1:12.8 | even some autonomy from the states of the world would improve human welfare. And for that |
1:20.5 | reason alone, it's worth reading that book. So you can get c-steading. We're going to link to it at |
1:25.2 | Tom Woods.com slash 948. You can get the audiobook version for |
1:28.9 | free via the audible offer at Tom Woods Audio.com. Joe is Director of Communications at the C-steading |
1:37.4 | Institute, and of course we'll have links on the show notes page, but c-steading.org is where you |
1:43.4 | would want to go for that. Joe, welcome back. |
1:46.3 | Thanks for having me back, Tom. I just read the, as you heard, the entire title of your book, |
1:52.2 | which we will simply refer to as C-steading by the main title as we talk, but I'm very interested in |
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