Most of you have probably heard about this already. Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal and one of the first investors in Facebook,
has invested one and a quarter million dollars in the Seasteading Institute company, which funds a project by one Patri Friedman, a former engineer at Google. The project is to build the perfect libertarian utopia on
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Yes. This will be about as successful as Marxism, or any other theoretical society that comes out of pure thought rather than evolving out of reality.
And finally, a hypothetical question. If you see such a project actually working just fine, and being a success, and if it matches your personal understanding of a better society, would you venture to join it?
It's going to be very difficult to judge success; it will have pluses and minuses, it will benefit some but not others. I predict that it will end up simply being another way to launder money so as to avoid taxation, whilst the principals live under the protection of countries that have sustainable governments. In other words, it will be a parasite.
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On the other hand a selective guestlist invitation to only the cream of the crop, or only well liked people who get already along is different. It's the difference of the Harley Owners Group going to Sturgis, and the Hells Angels going to Angel Acres.
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This pretty much sums up what I think would happen:
http://www.angryflower.com/atlass.gif
Still, it will be interesting to see what happens with this.
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