Erik is joined on this episode by Nicolas Colin, co-founder and director of The Family, and author of Hedge: A Greater Safety Net For The Entrepreneurial Age.

They discuss:

- Why in the future we can expect more social change from tech companies than from government.

- The key functions of version 1.0 of the social safety net.

- How to solve the problem that most jobs are located in cities, but cities are also mostly unaffordable.

- Why the 21st century will be more like the 19th century than the 20th.

- Why this is the entrepreneurial age, and what that means for workers.

- The story of the Rothschilds and how they prevented potential wars.

- The problems with universal basic income.

- How China is innovating on the social contract.

- The fact that nation-states are a recent invention and are not necessarily the only way to organize in the future.

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Venture Stories is brought to you by Village Global, is hosted by co-founder and partner, Erik Torenberg and is produced by Brett Bolkowy.