What Pieter Levels thinks about government
Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs his internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.
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6 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Pieter Levels has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingMonopoly power can capture politics
Their wordsOne interesting thing about Brazil more recently is how the Supreme Court judges are allegedly used by the ruling president to influence politics, censoring speech against the current government
- 8 days earlier
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Their wordsIf you make it easy for people to start and run businesses and don't get in their way too much, everyone gets wealthier
↗It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burdenlevels.io
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Their wordsIf you make it hard for people to start and run businesses and get in their way constantly, everyone gets poorer
↗It's really crazy how strongly wealth inverse correlates with regulatory burdenlevels.io
- 3 days earlier
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Their wordsBecause police doesn't let you file a report anymore for basic crime and people know police won't solve crime so they don't even try to file a police report
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsIn most of the world there is: no real willingness to solve problems nor an acceptance of people offering to solve their problems (out of pride) simply too much regulation so the problem cannot be solved without a license or long approval time very low standards of what is deemed acceptable so the problem isn't seen as a problem in the first place
↗You stop wondering why the US is so insanely rich when you travel the rest of the worldlevels.io
- 9 days earlier
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Their wordsI think most high skilled Europeans are happy to pay (even high) taxes That is, if the government does a great job like Singapore or Dubai or Korea or Japan and most things work well You pay the government for a service and you get safe cities, great public services and great healthcare back