Hurricane Katrina had a huge impact on my worldview. Much more than events like the 9/11 attacks. I generally concluded that putting your safety or security i

Hurricane Katrina had a huge impact on my worldview. Much more than events like the 9/11 attacks. I generally concluded that putting your safety or security in the hands of governments, or really any institution, was a potentially fatal mistake. And I'm not just talking about natural disasters. My interest in something like Bitcoin as opposed to banks is attributable to the hurricane Katrina response (the 2008 financial crisis being just a later example of centralized failure). I'm fairly confident in my position, but I hope to be proven wrong on this one. I never want to see anything like the results of Hurricane Katrina ever again.