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“Over the long term, however, we doubt that the leading nation-states will succeed in suppressing Sovereign Individuals. For one thing, existing states, especially in capital-poor regions, will find that they have more to gain by harboring Sovereign Individuals than by maintaining solidarity with the North Atlantic nation-states and upholding the sanctity of the "international" system. The fact that bankrupt, high-tax welfare states want to keep

"their citizens" and "their capital" in "their country" will not be a compelling motive to be observed by hundreds of fragmenting sovereignties elsewhere.”

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Orange Crush 2y ago

Joe, would you relocate to maintain sovereignty? I imagine Opthalmology has some universality as a profession.

Personally been trying to get some bitcoin side hustles to blossom since my IRL profession isn’t universal.

Joe Santamaria, MD 2y ago

Great question…it’s tough because being from California, I already saw my move to Texas as a step up in terms of personal sovereignty in many ways, an have found a good group of people with similar values that I love being around. Also, my wife’s family is here which is great, and as described in the book I do still hold on to that national identity and optimistic view of the US having traveled to quite a few countries abroad (including Central America) that don’t enjoy similar opportunities that we do, despite our other shortcomings.

So in short, in reality, things would have to get exceedingly worse for me to move…hoping it doesn’t come to that, but time will tell.

Ophthalmology trained surgeons from the US translates well, we’ve been to several trips abroad where we are needed and where ophthalmic care is severely lacking, so definitely thing (hope) they would welcome us!