Simon Hornstein

Passports, residencies, off-shore structures, enabling freedom. German, based in Panama, ex-VC fund manager, Asia enthusiast, guns, butterflies and hard sci-fi

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A few weeks ago a super liberal and progressive friend of mine visited me in Panama. She came to a climate project her company was investing in.

We had dinner together and all she talked about was the climate catastrophe, the opening gap between poor and rich, how bad Western capitalism is, and how we should learn from natives and indigenous to live in harmony with nature.

She is from a wealthy German family never worried about money and stayed in the most expensive hotel of the city.
She went to visit some remote places with indigenous villages deep in the rainforest and came back after a week.

I could literally see how her romantic images of the poor third world were shattered.
She was appalled by the mountains of plastic junk close to local villages, she saw indigenous people dumping trash right into a river, zero consciousness for the environment.

And the funniest thing happened.

She was so upset and annoyed and started the most imperialist and colonialist rant I ever heard:
those people don’t know what they do, we have to teach them, they can’t decide themselves, they are just too stupid, how can they not know about it, probably they are just genetically incapable of thinking…
It continued for an hour.

Literally watched a white supremacist being born. Put her right back into the 19th century and she could have colonialized India single-handedly.
It is amazing what pure unfiltered reality can do.

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Keep moving, good friend of mine did the same but didn’t want to waste time healing, so he just popped lots of codeine everyday and kept on walking a few kilometres per day.
It looked like a balloon in the beginning, after a week it was almost gone, two weeks later he could sprint again.

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@babymohouseman @raisedadust Nein, nein, die werden das deutsche Google, Space X, Facebook und OpenAI gründen. Goldstücke wurden uns geschenkt.

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Same here in Panama, home schooling is a luxury, that’s even illegal in Germany.

Soon there’ll be different language versions of Alpha School, so you can easily home school, keep your children at an international comparable level, and they can spend the majority of their time interacting with other children in fun things, like sports, hobby clubs, outside etc and not in academic learning where interaction rarely helps.

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Die medizinische Versorgung in Südostasien ist teilweise besser als in Europa.
Bumrungrad Hospital in Bangkok bietet einen fünf Sterne Service, mit Suiten, englisch sprechenden Ärzten, sodass selbst hier aus Südamerika wohlhabende Familien für Check-ups plus Urlaub nach Thailand gehen.

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@Linahuaa Couldn’t have wrapped it into better words to express how gay and retarded it is.

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@Ale_PPathways Perhaps Ferrari is just rage baiting the internet and it was a PR stunt.

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@MaximInvestiert Nur der kommerzielle Erfolg zählt, wird es sich verkaufen? Kann man sich zwar nicht vorstellen, aber let’s see

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Here in Panama essentially every farmer further away from the cities burns rainforest every year.

You can see it very clearly on Google maps, its government land, national parks, even private land, that is just occupied and the farmers burn it down.

Local police doesn’t do anything as long as nobody complains because they’re their relatives and for local government the farmers are voters.

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Monkey watching tour on the lake with a boat can be really hot between 10am-2pm. Rather go earlier, 7-10am.
I’d go to Las Perlas Islands instead of San Blas. San blas will be cloudy now during rainy season, whereas Las Perlas in the Pacific is almost sunny everyday.
The ferry takes only 90 minutes from Panama City Amador, and you have loads of guest houses, empty beaches, crystal clear water, restaurants and activities to choose

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@planbparaguay How much is property tax on such a huge land property?

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To be clear I meant initiatives in history, not right now, that we are all against slavery at the moment should be a no-brainer.

I meant it was the British empire that abolished slavery in 1833.
The US-Navy fought their first international wars between 1801 to 1815 against the Barbary States to stop the enslavement of American Sailors.

The Ottoman Empire kept slavery until 1908.
That’s just facts.

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@Lgreen242424 Look at my last name, probably not that career-enhancing in Germany during WWll

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@Lgreen242424 @visegrad24 Oh really? The Ottoman Empire abolished slavery in 1908. Saudi Arabia abolished slavery in 1962.
Sephardic Jews were the top slave traders in the Caribbean well into the 18th century.

But please enlighten me.

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@unblogd People living the moment, no cellphones in sight, beautiful

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@Wilehalm Ist doch super, weniger CO2, rettet das Weltklima

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@boetia_norico Empathy with the wrong side until the very end

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@seriengruender Schon längst ausgewandert, Land kaufen, Immobilien, Essen und wohnen muss man immer.

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@tessiermaurice In Panama at public beaches for swimming the police will clear the water at 6pm, because they’re responsible for safety until 6pm.
They take a photo of the empty water, and then the police says ok, now everybody goes in again „on their own responsibility“ 😂😂😂

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The top hospitals here have even better treatments and care than German hospitals, recently had this discussion where someone considered going back to Germany for a treatment and the German top surgeon advised against it.
And the German doctor when looking at the treatment plans of the Panamanian hospital said it’s the better way….