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It hurts. I agree with you - I’m just a very patriotic person who still loves the old idea of America as a place of unadulterated freedom and possibilities.<br />
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The present state makes me so sad.<br />
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2020 was even worse, but today isn’t much better.
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I was there once. Now, I just feel betrayed.
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Call me crazy but I am more and more optimistic. Not for America, but for people like us. <br />
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Here's why: <br />
1. Trust in institutions has never been lower. People aren't eating what they're being fed anymore. "The script" is losing strength every day. <br />
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2. The blockchain is helping individuals to free themselves from centralization<br />
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3. Geography does not matter as much as in the past since more and more business is done over the internet. <br />
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4. As such, you can go wherever you like. "People vote with their feet". <br />
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5. Since people are free to move, they go where "they are treated best". This means that in the future, countries will increasingly compete to attract the best citizens (that's what El Salvador is trying to do now, and what Croatia has done with their digital nomad visa). <br />
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6. Innovative places want to attract innovative people and are open to their ideas. This has led to the rise of private cities that enjoy more economic freedom and little bureaucracy as almost everything is privatized. <br />
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7. Ever heard of Balaji? Apparently he's famous in Silicon Valley but I only discovered him recently. He speaks about network states. According to him, digital states will eventually be formed over the internet by a group of people assembling to create an official entity. Your passport, insurance, etc will be handled by these network states. It's not very clear to me how it will work (because wherever you are, you still stand in a real country), but I find the idea interesting. <br />
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Estonia gave us the e-residency, blockchain gave us e-money. <br />
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Why wouldn't we have e-passport? <br />
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The internet is eating the real world. <br />
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It will eventually replace it. <br />
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And the internet is inherently libertarian. <br />
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There is no place in this world for centralization. Communism and socialism are dead, and dead forever. <br />
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What we witness now is the last round, the last fight of an ideology struggling for survival, but that was built to fail from the beginning.</div>
