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Musk also launched SpaceX to get humanity to Mars, Starlink for global Internet, Boring Company to decrease traffic congestion, and Neuralink to improve brain I/O

I'm curious if he is expecting an anarcho-capitalism type system or he's predicting wildwest/dystopian.

I believe he likens it to BLM Riots:Jan 6 every day, type of dystopia.

I am intrigued about the cloud country. It almost feels like Estonia might be that place? Or perhaps their attempt?

He is super bullish on Estonia, IIRC.

The Network State is free as a PDF or to read online if you're interested: https://thenetworkstate.com/

That's how I interpret his statements, at least. He goes into more detail in his book The Network State, but essentially says America is descending and the future will be the Anarchistic West vs Communist China. He advocates exiting most systems into a "cloud country" which would ultimately manifest in the real world (aggregate online over similar values, purchase physical land, etc)

Balaji says

[0] (on Jackson, Mississippi's lack of running water)

There is no first world and third world anymore.

There is the ascending world, and then there is the descending world.

And this is the descending world.

[1]

A similar phenomenon began right before the fall of the Soviet Union. Life expectancy for men fell from a high of 65 years in 1987 to a low of 57 years in 1994

[0](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1564853661351628802)

[1](https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1564859125829230592?t=fYc...)