54. Paul McNiel
Paul McNiel is the man behind Wagon Box, a “network state” project in Wyoming. He essentially “bought” a town, and is now retrofitting it as a parallel-economy destination DAO for dissidents and other breeds of opt-outers who want nothing to do with mainstream society. The values of the project are pro-local, anti-corporatist, and anti-elitist: the polar opposite of everything Jackson Hole has become. That being said, he’s well-aware of the prospect of becoming just the type of parachuter he seeks to resist.He and I were both featured prominently in James Pogue's Vanity Fair exploration of…
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