The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

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William Rees-Mogg was born in 1928 in Bristol, England. He was the son of Edmund Fletcher Rees-Mogg (1889–1962) of Cholwell House [1] in the parish of Cameley in Somerset, an Anglican, and his Irish American Catholic wife, Beatrice Warren, a daughter of Daniel Warren of New York. [2] [3] William Rees-Mogg was raised in the Roman Catholic faith. Rees-Mogg began his career in journalism in London at the Financial Times in 1952 becoming chief leader writer in 1955 and, in addition, assistant editor in 1957. [9] [10] During this period, he was Conservative candidate for the safe Labour seat of Chester-le-Street in a by-election on 27 September 1956, losing to the Labour candidate Norman Pentland by 21,287 votes, [11] as he did in the subsequent general election by a similar margin. Good piece… There is however a n interesting contradiction at the heart of Rees-Mogg Jr’s programme, one that his father would probably not approve of and that I think you could have brought forward more explicitly: in the process of turning himself into a Sovereign Individual, Jacob has forged an unholy alliance with the “furious nationalists” who, far from aspiring to some kind of technology-enabled libertarian utopia, want to resurrect the obsolete notion of a protectionist, autocratic, ethnically and culturally homogeneous state. Reply

Rand, Ayn (1988). The Ayn Rand lexicon: objectivism from A to Z. p.204. ISBN 9780452010512. Citation: "the ruler of the individual — as a sovereign authority (with or without supernatural mandate), an authority logically antecedent to the citizen and to which he must submit. The Founding Fathers challenged this primordial notion. They started with the premise of the primacy and sovereignty of the individual."It was a bit of an Ancient Mariner moment. There was something so intense about the voice chasing me down the platform at Marylebone station. New technologies will allow the holders of wealth to bypass the national monopolies that have issued and regulated money in the modern period. [...] Their importance for controlling the world's wealth will be transcended by mathematical algorithms that have no physical existence. In the new millennium, cybermoney controlled by private markets will supersede fiat money issued by governments. Only the poor will be victims of inflation and ensuing collapses into deflation that are consequences of the artificial leverage which fiat money injects into the economy. [7]

a b "The Sovereign Individual". simonandschuster.com. Simon & Schuster. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022 . Retrieved 20 April 2022. Other scholars are critical of the idea of private property, specifically within anarchism. The anarchist Oscar Wilde said: Herman-Hans Hoppe (2020). Economics and Ethics of Private Property. p.424. Citation: "In the same vein, the fact of self-ownership is a praxeological precondition of argumentation. Anyone trying to prove or disprove anything must be a self-owner." The Sovereign Individuals who would gain most from this “liberation” are “the brightest, most successful and ambitious” among us, they said, “those who can educate and motivate themselves…. Genius will be unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government and the drags of racial and ethnic prejudice.” Naval Ravikant". maavens.com. Archived from the original on 19 April 2022 . Retrieved 20 April 2022.The fundamental assumptions about how the monetary system works is completely wrong and part of neoliberalism central. This is, politicly, the most extreme neoliberal book I have seen. Fortunately, there is an alternative, and it is MMT. Reply In general, I like books that map macro transitions and The Sovereign Individual does a good job of this. However, I do have a couple big critiques: Missing GAFA Aggregators in Institutional Co-Evolution Wilby, Peter (8 January 2007). "Prints of darkness". The Guardian. London. Archived from the original on 9 August 2008 . Retrieved 1 January 2013. One big enabler of this worrying trend is the fact that many major western countries are not true democracies (eg UK, US) and so allow a minority to make huge changes for everyone.