Episode Summary
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Western countries are increasingly treating Citizens like chattel slaves. The odds are you’re probably existing in a system where human beings are legally owned, bought, sold, controlled, and stripped of autonomy, treated no differently than livestock or objects.
In fact, Americans may be the most restricted people in the world, particularly financially. Expat taxes. Restrictions on offshore investments. A country that is increasingly isolated, standing on its own, drifting toward a police state.
Why would you want to live there?
You are not property of the state. The purpose of a government is to serve the needs of the people. To build roads and schools. To be sovereign, to get along with everybody, and to focus on improving the lives of its people.
Not to go bombing people.
“Go where you’re treated best” is a very human construct. It is human nature to want to live where you are treated well. Why should you live somewhere where the government takes almost half your money, tells you where and when you are allowed to travel, and sends armed thugs to shoot people for making a video or disagreeing with official views and propaganda?
The monetary system is broken. The judicial system is broken. The education and health systems are broken. Yet people are massively brainwashed to see and hear all of this and still proclaim that it is the “best system on earth.” We are superior. American exceptionalism rules.
Except it does not.
If you are American or Canadian, you effectively have access to one country. You need permission to travel out of your own country. In Australia and the UK this mindset is also becoming explicit. Boris Johnson openly said that if you are convicted of any crime, even something as minor as peeing in a fountain after a night at the pub, you could be denied a passport.
Why should your passport strangle you?
Today I’m speaking with Andrew Henderson, the Nomad Capitalist who renounced his American citizenship eight years ago. Andrew is probably the human being on earth with the most know-how about going where you’re treated best. He’s definitely also the person I know with the most different passports from all corners of the world. Best of all, he will be speaking virtually at the TDV Summit, so if you are thinking of expanding your residency and investment options, make sure you get your ticket to the Dollar Vigilante Summit on February 21!
Today we’re talking about regional blocks and multiple citizenships. The African Union is one example. São Tomé and Príncipe offer one of the cheapest citizenship options, starting around $90,000. You could live in Rwanda, often called the Singapore of Africa, or look at Ethiopia, which is becoming increasingly geopolitically important.
These regions are increasingly anti-Western in narrative but pro-freedom in practice.
The strategy is to travel on as many identities as possible and live in as many places as possible, for example:
ASEAN, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, through Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, and Brunei.
Mercosur (Southern Common Market) through Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Bolivia (in the process of full accession), as well as associated states like Colombia, Peru etc.
EAC (East African Community) covers Kenya, Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, South Sudan, and the DRC. Citizens can travel, live, and in some cases work across borders with minimal friction. Rwanda and Kenya are especially open.
Even the European Union offers escape to 27 countries.
In today’s video, Andrew talks about his focus on regional blocks in
