The Sovereign Individual: How to Survive and Thrive During the Collapse of the Welfare State

The web allows people to transcend any bad luck of being born in a certain country or state, they’re global citizens now.

The information overload puts a premium on brevity, which leads to abbreviation, which leaves out what is unfamiliar, which leaves out important parts of understanding the information.

Memorization as a skill will become useless, but the value of quickly learning will increase. We’ll be in a world of abundant information and what you’ll need to know is how to use it.

Mass production of books ended the Church’s monopoly on Scripture and information, wider book availability increased literacy, more people could contribute thoughts on important subjects, and it threatened the church’s monopoly on theology and information.

In the information age, a job will be a task that you do, not a thing that you have.

There’s no reason that 1000 employees can’t be replaced by a group of independent contractors, especially in a post-assembly line economy.

Unless the US changes its tax laws, enterprising individuals will likely renounce their citizenship in the future in pursuit of a better form of governance.

You can’t rely on conventional information sources to give you an objective warning about how the world is changing and why. You have to figure it out for yourself.

The move to agriculture resulted in the emergence of property. Before that, there was no sense of private property since there was no need. But when you spend a year growing a field of corn, you don’t want someone else to come along and eat it.