Why I renounced my US Citizenship - Roger Ver
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Brian Rose
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🗓️ 7 January 2022
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | It's fascinating to know that that prison experience those 10 months gave you the best economics |
| 0:05.0 | degree possible and probably led to making you tens of not hundreds of millions of dollars based |
| 0:10.2 | on those lessons implanted in your brain. That's a pretty fascinating case in itself. |
| 0:15.8 | Are you still angry at the US government or governments in general? And did that have anything |
| 0:22.3 | to do with you renouncing your citizenship? Because a lot of US people think about doing that. |
| 0:26.4 | I mean, I'm over here as a UK citizen and US citizen. I still have to pay taxes. I still have to, |
| 0:32.3 | you know, be part of that citizenship. Was that part of your decision? |
| 0:37.7 | Yeah, I was furious, absolutely furious. So when I got out of prison with the way I had been treated |
| 0:43.2 | and I had three years of better probation to do as well. And my God, those people at the |
| 0:48.0 | probation office, what a bunch of jerks those guys were to. And the two jerks that I remember the |
| 0:53.3 | names very clearly the most. Nancy Kirk and Jose Martinez, both those guys should be |
| 0:57.7 | or ones a woman, but they should both be ashamed of themselves with the way they behaved and treated |
| 1:02.7 | me. It was just really disgusting. So one example of that is I was working really hard, had my own |
| 1:08.4 | business there. And I bought my first really nice house in a so-called country club in Silicon |
| 1:13.6 | Valley there. And I was 24, probably years old at this point, beautiful house, beautiful light |
| 1:20.3 | beige carpets there. The probation officer wants to come and inspect where I'm living. That's |
| 1:24.4 | part of their job. So okay, he shows up there. And especially you know, in Japanese culture too, |
| 1:28.9 | don't wear your shoes inside of your house. That's a big thing for me. Don't wear shoes inside |
| 1:32.9 | the house. The guys there, the probation officer's there to inspect my house. It's okay, you can come |
| 1:36.8 | in and inspect, but please take your shoes off before you come in my brand new house. I just work so |
| 1:41.4 | hard to buy. And he says, no, no, I'm going to keep my shoes on. I say, well, you can come in my |
| 1:45.5 | house and inspect and do your job, but take your shoes off before you come in my house. He goes, |
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