Michael Strong
Michael Strong - Michael Strong has been involved in creating alternative institutions to the state for decades. As an educator, he has focused on creating innovative schools to develop autodidacts and independent thinkers, most recently the Expat International School of Freedom and Entrepreneurship. As a leader of the free cities movement, he has worked with various governments to set up quasi-independent jurisdictions. More broadly, he is an advocate of the full parallel development of new and better institutions to replace failing state institutions around the world. He will provide a vision of how we can work together to accelerate the development and acceptance of higher quality institutions for all. Michael is the author of The Habit of Thought: From Socratic Seminars to Socratic Practice and Be the Solution: How Entrepreneurs and Conscious Capitalists Can Solve All the World's Problems. He is the founder and Executive Director of the Adolescent Flourishing Initiative at the University of Austin and serves on the board of the Seasteading Institute.
Session
Right now, governments dominate the world. How can we move towards a more peaceful, voluntary global society with prosperity for all? Certainly Bitcoin is a big part of the solution - as Bitcoin replaces fiat currencies governments will not be able to finance aggression through fiat currencies. But at the same time, we can accelerate the creation of voluntary systems of governance, community, education, health care, and more. As more of the world's talent and capital transition from government systems of domination to peaceful voluntaryism, we will in effect be "underthrowing" governments. Just as electronic communications and private delivery services such as UPS, FedEx, etc. have made government post offices irrelevant, as we create private voluntary systems the remaining government functions will be as irrelevant to life as are the post offices - or the Queen of England - expensive, decorative, wastes.