001 - Peter Young: Free Cities Overview

001 - Peter Young: Free Cities Overview

Free Cities Podcast

Timothy Allen talks to Peter Young.

Peter is the managing director of the Free Cities Foundation. He leads the operational management of the foundation, with oversight over project delivery, communications and finance.

Before joining the Free Cities Foundation, Peter spent most of his career based in Beijing supporting trade links between the UK and China.


A.I. generated summary:

00:10 Introduction to the show. 02:32 Definition of a free city. 06:24 Free Cities Foundation's Conference. 10:53 Centralised vs. decentralised power. 17:33 Collectivist vs. individualist. 22:51 Is this model of free cities a new concept? 30:07 High time preference vs. low time preference. 36:44 The problem of property rights in a free city. 41:34 Free Cities Conference in Prague. 47:37 What concerns me about education in the UK? 53:27 Privatised education in China. 57:54 Protest against the current financial system. 1:03:43 How hard money allows for long term thinking. 1:08:44 Bitcoin is legal tender in El Salvador. 1:14:01 Saving your money in bitcoin. 1:19:07 The importance of learning how to use bitcoin. 1:26:41 Peter’s plans for the future.


TWITTER:

Timothy Allen: https://twitter.com/MrTimothyAllen

Peter Young: https://twitter.com/petermiyoung

Free Cities Foundation: https://twitter.com/freecitiesfound


WEBSITES:

Free Cities Foundation: https://free-cities.org/

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