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Author: Admin | 2025-04-27
Than it does a combination-vacation-home-and-co-working space for the jetsetting elite. So while many of the Network Staters claim to want to escape the confines of the Western system promulgated by the U.S., they also seem perfectly content to continue benefiting from its largesse in myriad ways. Indeed, the regulatory and administrative bureaucracy that Srinivasan and his cohort seem so eager to escape ironically seems to be the only thing allowing them to make places like Prospera possible. And Network State adherents largely seem to prefer to spend their time in the cozy confines of the United States. As just one example, a U.S. regulatory agency that Prospera benefits greatly from is the Federal Aviation Administration. The FAA ensures that planes follow safe, pre-established flight paths so that they do not run into one another mid-air. If there is no FAA, how are crypto fanatics going to fly off to foreign countries at the drop of a hat to enjoy their bougie crypto conventions at beachside resorts? If Srinivasan plans on “crowdfunding” and creating his own FAA, isn’t that a huge waste of time and resources, given the fact that a functioning regulatory agency already exists? At root, Srinivasan’s vision of the future takes for granted the immense amount of social and political stability that the administrative state—or, as he likes to call it, the “Leviathan”—provides for him and his cohort. Much like Marc Andreessen’s “techno-optimism,” Srinivasan’s “Network State” manifesto appears to suffer from the fact that it was written by a guy who has been so rich for so long that he has fundamentally forgotten about the basic realities of human life. Borne aloft by the very system and “Establishment” that he decries, he seems to believe that, given enough capital, he and his cohort are capable of anything. If
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