I might be moving...

[MonkeyF0cker]

Eventually.

Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

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http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout...artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

 

[Matty]

Woah.

 

[betplom]

Lawless nation eh?

Someone is likely to kill you (and get away with it) your first day on the island.

 

[Matty]

Not lawless. Just a brand new code.

Go Libertarians.

 

[kato]

i read that today.

i would go crazy living on a oil-rig.

good idea though.

get citizenship at least.

 

[BGS 9.5]

will be a lot of ass plunderung.....

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

It would have to be considerably larger than an oil rig, but would likely use the same fundamental technology to implement it.

I'm not worried about dying, Plommer. However, it's libertarian. Not anarchist. I'd always have a sidearm. I already do most of the time anyway.

 

[kato]

island fever

 

[Oksana]

lord of the flies

we're all just batshit crazy animals at the core

 

[betplom]

lord of the flies

we're all just batshit crazy animals at the core

We?

The only crazy people I know are those capable of creating a mucous plug.

 

[rito]

whats the benefit of looser building codes?

 

[Bread]

lord of the flies

we're all just batshit crazy animals at the core

 

[reno cool]

" no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

oh yeah, this is the problem with America. common.

 

[Saulty]

Didn't they make a movie about it already? Waterworld or something with Costner.

 

[senco78]

whats the benefit of looser building codes?

more money in the pockets of the builders and developers

 

[MonkeyF0cker]

Yeah. It basically comes down to a far smaller tax burden, free market capitalism, and freedom from overzealous social codes. I don't think it's a coincidence that the American economy thrived under those conditions in previous eras.

 

[Tron]

This idea is an attempt at creating the Utopia that Robert Nozick (prominent Libertarian philosopher) talks about in Anarchy, State, and Utopia; basically small communities that are independent from one another.

However, if you read the whole book (which few people do), he describes the inherent problems with the idea (scarce resources, regulating inter-community disputes, etc etc) and he implies that it is likely impossible to implement.

 

[senco78]

marshall law?