Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

[katsy]

Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html


" 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 lat-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."

Comments?

I say bye-bye. And we won't have to fund tsunami alerts for them, right? LOL

[Blue Meany]

1. A waste of money - we already have libertarian countries like Somalia n/t

[Donnachaidh]

2. Lex Luthor wanted to do the same thing.

jeez -- don't let the door hit ya. But if you expect to do business in the US without high tariffs you'd better think twice...

[emulatorloo]

3. "a kind of floating petri dish" Hope they have the sewage thing worked out

[GReedDiamond]

4. "Looser building codes"...

..."on oil rig-like platforms"..."in international waters."

That should work out well for the heavily armed inhabitants of these floating libertarian utopias.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

5. Yaargh!!!!! nt

[eShirl]

6. future pirate haven

[Tommy_Carcetti]

8. You mean....

....a bunch of selfish millionaires and billionaires living out in the middle of the ocean with no government to protect them?

They'll be fine. Really.

And the point is, government is the worst thing that could ever, ever happen to them. Ever.

[HughBeaumont]

7. "no welfare, no minimum wage" . . .

. . . aaaaaaaaaaaaaand THAT, among other things, is why I laugh . . . long, loud and with great derision . . . to libertarian economics. These people are nothing but Reagan + Pot - teh Jesus.

[Generic Other]

9. And a gangplank to forcewalk those who fail to thrive?

Like a bad episode of "Survivor."

[nc4bo]

10. Isn't there some ME country that did this and now they're sinking

Then they'll fall into the sea and leave the rest of us alone..

ETA: :rofl: U.S. version of the Dubai Islands :rofl:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1349532/Dubai-islands-falling-sea-Dubai-World-sinks-fund-crisis.html

[Odin2005]

11. GO GALT! GO GALT!

:rofl:

[tabbycat31]

12. I'm not opposed to this

And please infiltrate every tea party event with brochures for real estate there to entice some of our craziest teabaggers to move.

[calimary]

13. Fantastic! Let 'em go form their own little utopias. Call it the Burger Kingers - let 'em

have it their way. Little blops of anarchy floating on the waves - kinda like so many turds...

[Terry in Austin]

14. Money overdose can have peculiar side-effects

Seems to be giving this guy an urge for experimental civics.

It'll be the hard way, but maybe he'll find out what he needs to know about it.

[KamaAina]

15. And to think, I used to sit on Opihi's lanai and discuss something quite similar

but built around sustainability rather than Randroidism. :eyes:

[dtexdem]

16. Good deal, if all the libertarians will go there and stay there.

;-)

[LeftinOH]

17. Gilligans's Island was better organized -and more civil than anything they could come

up with.

[denverbill]

18. I think they should be required to renounce their US citizenship. n/t

[myrna minx]

19. Ugh, I can't believe Silly Sailor beat us both up and imprisoned us in his floating aqua world.

:rofl:


Well, now he doesn't have make his bed, doesn't have to do his homework and he can have cake for breakfast because no one's the boss of HIM.

[guitar man]

20. "Galt Island to US coast guard....mayday!"

"Galt Island to US coast guard....mayday! We're taking on water, can you throw us some life lines?"

"Coast Guard to Galt Island... negative, grab your boot straps!!"

:D

[DirkGently]

21. FanTASTIC idea. Then six months later, the movie version of Bioshock can be filmed in the ruins!

[steve2470]

22. Somalia called, they want their idea back ! nt

[Vinca]

23. When they vote people off the island, we don't want them back.

[Arugula Latte]

24. Lax building standards = them being dumped into the sea when their platform collapses.

I won't shed too many tears.