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No shade towards the Network School but it was announced one month away, that probably excludes 95% of potential applicants. Over indexes those who can drop everything and travel to a remote island, independently wealthy types. By design?

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@balajis.eth mentions Indian engineers, African coders, Chinese liberals and Latin American libertarians. Can these folks drop their jobs for an eight week sabbatical? One month out?

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- No - No For 1k rent + all other expenses? - Also no

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Vitalik Buterin

There's definitely a subset that absolutely can; zuzalu was proof that they exist. In some cases, large parts of whole companies temporarily relocated. It certainly is a very small group relative to the populations of those countries as a whole. For a "round 1", asking unreasonable things of people may be fine, if the goal is to do a small experiment, and then you make the structure more accommodating for rounds 2+. But it's still possible to overshoot, and actually get lots of millionaires and zero students / young devs. I think if I were doing this I would give out lots of targeted scholarships. Or perhaps zuzalu 1.0's blanket "low-GDP country discount". CC @balajis.eth

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I completely agree although since most people of his target audience will be in Singapore for his Network States conference I think he’s trying to capitalize on most people already being in the area and willing to extend their sabbatical and then those that can’t will plan to attend later in the island’s life cycle

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Hey! Latin American here (I live in Brazil), I was accepted and I'm going, so I wanted to give my perspective on it. I'm not dropping my "job", by any means. I work remotely and will continue to do so (he mentions how the ideal applicant is someone who's able to work remotely or has enough savings to cover expenses, so I don't see a problem there). I never interpreted it as a "sabbatical", he specifically mentions how people who need to focus on their day jobs during the week will be able to do so (check the full announcement). One month out really makes things more difficult, I'm paying at least $2k for plane tickets, plus $3k for accommodation if I stay there for the full three months. I'm NOT wealthy, in fact this is a super risky move for me, but I'm willing to take the risk for what I think could be a once in a lifetime very cool opportunity (?) I'm a little anxious about the whole thing, for sure. But I'm also super excited! :)

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Can drop job but hard to drop 2yo 😢

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