>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)

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

I feel like that's one of the big political divides.

Why is China dominant and being made the boogey man in the USA? They opened free trade zones on their coast. They beat the USA at their own game who contemporarily are increasing taxes.

You have everyone piling into Africa to bring them low tax capitalism especially China. They see their peasant war coming because of the ultra wealthy coast and impoverished west. Africa is about to become the next china with ultra cheap labour. China loses those contracts and must rush to replace them.

For the USA to beat China, anarcho-capitalism is the likely option. That's the #1 scary unspoken thing about Trump. He represents exactly this.

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