The Recall Dilemma: Tech and Politics in San Francisco

Why is Elon trying so hard to dismantle the administrative state? This may be an answer you haven't heard yet. 

This week, Emile and Kate host journalist Gil Duran (New Republic, The Nerd Reich) for a discussion about Network States, aka libertarian post democracy colonies that have become a popular idea among tech billionaires. 

From seasteading to the California Forever tech utopia, from Mars to maybe... the entire US, these guys have their sites set on a feudal structure that makes an Ayn Rand novel look quaint. 

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