My Story

I began my journey with a deep passion for environmental sustainability. I

intuitively believed that with rationality and hard work Man could achieve
prosperity in a just and sustainable manner.

As I began investigating water and power generation and use and realized
urban planning fundamentally affected a society’s ability to be environmentally
sustainable.

As I dug deeper, I learned that solutions to efficient utility generation and

distribution existed and that governmental zoning codes and bureaucratic
stagnation blocked their innovative deployment.

I necessarily had to learn more about government and its seemingly

monopolistic control over urban planning.

As a Political Science major at UCLA I learned that government had

monopolistic control over many other areas of my society: money, military,
roads, education, etc… I was shocked to find out that in every area the
government possessed a monopoly, wealth was being destroyed and
innovation inhibited.

I had to explore economics to make sense of a seemingly irrational use of

government. In my economics minor at UCLA I did not find sufficient answers
to why government was seemingly holding back innovation and causing great
harm to the environment and individuals’ quality of life.

After college, still thirsting for answers to this monumental paradox I

discovered the book ATLAS SHRUGGED, which then led me to MURRAY
ROTHBARD and LUDWIG VON MISES’ writings. I now had the knowledge to
make rational sense of why government was holding back innovation.

The answer was simple and shocking, because government is a tool of a small
but powerful group of people, desirous of extracting wealth from working
citizens and protecting their legacy businesses. By way of logical reasoning, I
no longer saw government as “well-intentioned but in efficient” rather, it was
consciously malevolent towards the general population.

Government is not broken; it is serving its purpose beautifully for the people
who control it, so how could I seek reform from within the political system.
Furthermore, how can I prosper as a young entrepreneur when all the cards
are stacked against my success?

The answer is – I can’t.

That is how City 2.0 was born. A vision of freedom and prosperity utilizing the
best human knowledge of free market capitalism, environmental sustainability
and urban design.

The 21st century revolutionary will be noted for its decidedly non-
confrontational stance. A form of political resistance that takes its conceptual
lead from aikido, an ancient martial art that re-directs the energy of an
attacker against them. Men who withdraw their support for the state, while
improving their health, wealth and safety.