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Title: [2008] Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies Post by: Bit_Happy on March 28, 2014, 03:54:41 AM Tired of the United States and the other 190-odd nations on Earth?
If a small team of Silicon Valley millionaires get their way, in a few years, you could have a new option for global citizenship: A permanent, quasi-sovereign nation floating in international waters. With a $500,000 donation from PayPal founder Peter Thiel, a Google engineer and a former Sun Microsystems programmer have launched The Seasteading Institute, an organization dedicated to creating experimental ocean communities "with diverse social, political, and legal systems." "Decades from now, those looking back at the start of the century will understand that Seasteading was an obvious step towards encouraging the development of more efficient, practical public-sector models around the world," Thiel said in a statement. http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/05/seasteading?currentPage=all This will be a place where BTC can be an "official" currency....Oh wait... It's a free market, there might be dozens of viable currencies. :D Title: Re: [2008] Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies Post by: Twilight_Sparkle on March 28, 2014, 07:31:12 AM Quote Friedman estimates that it would cost a few hundred million dollars to build a seastead for a few thousand people. So only about $100,000 for a lifetime ticket? Sounds like a bargain. :) Title: Re: [2008] Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies Post by: Bonam on March 28, 2014, 06:15:46 PM Living in a tube on the ocean would get boring fast. I need land to walk on, mountains to climb. I'm for trying libertarian forms of governments as much as the next guy, but living in a tube in the middle of nowhere seems like too much of a sacrifice.
Title: Re: [2008] Peter Thiel Makes Down Payment on Libertarian Ocean Colonies Post by: Bit_Happy on March 28, 2014, 07:11:01 PM ...too much of a sacrifice
Have you seen pictures of Galt's Gulch Chile? The weather is a lot like Southern Cal. http://galtsgulchchile.com/ Quote Friedman estimates that it would cost a few hundred million dollars to build a seastead for a few thousand people. So only about $100,000 for a lifetime ticket? Sounds like a bargain. :) I would live there at least 4 to 6 months a year. Hopefully they build more than one, so it's not a single target. |