Waheed (in istanbul)
@waheed
Reading Theodore Herzel, one of the foremost books in history to go from:
pamphlet (book) > germinating idea > crowd-sourcing money > buy physical land > establish a state (i.e Israel).
@balajis.eth mentions this v eloquently.
grin 🧢
@grin
@saymore about what you’ve taken from this book
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Waheed (in london)
@waheed
One interesting tooling though Herzel mentions is the 'Jewish Company' which to me is like a REIT++.
(does the job of real estate investing like a REIT but also organises commerce on behalf of the community).
Something to ponder? @vitalik.eth
Waheed (in london)
@waheed
(BTW big disclaimer: I do feel terrible for all civilian lives lost in the current wars. I pray for their souls and their families strength to live happy, prosperous, peaceful and free lives like we envisage in a well functioning network state. Purely picked this topic up to educate myself more.)
antimo — q/dau
@antimofm.eth
Never thought about Herzl in that light
Waheed (in london)
@waheed
Retrospectively everything looks romantic, but took 50 yrs to go from first distribution to state creation.
antimo — q/dau
@antimofm.eth
yeah, with a few hiccups in between - still a historic feat. I cannot think of any other instance (modern or not) where a state was built, as opposed to handed out or partitioned, out of sheer will and private property