
If you think the future of global capitalism looks like more deregulation, more privatization, and more billionaire capture of public life, you’re only seeing the surface. As Margaret Flowers lays out… a new class of ultra‑wealthy libertarian visionaries is carving out private city‑states — zones where democratic law simply doesn’t apply, where corporations write the rules, run the police, and operate as sovereign powers. As the transcript notes, these projects are “privatized economic…free zones…where very wealthy people are trying to create these zones that can make their own rules, have their own police, and operate outside of the governments in the places where they exist.”