"Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands"

http://...yahoo.com/...-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

Somebody said:
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."

How long, do you think, before they discover a new breed of sea slug with highly regenerative properties? Which plasmids will you start with? I'm going with Sports Boost 2 because ladies really do love the athletic man.

Also, I'm super disappointed that the Silicon Valley funder's name isn't an anagram of "Andrew Ryan".

In all seriousness, though, I think this is very interesting, and I'm looking forward to seeing how this ends up working out. Regardless of my own political beliefs, this is a fascinating sociological and economic experiment.

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So... Looser Building codes, huh? On your floating islands? We'll see how that works out...

Goddamnit Kit. Why you gotta make me agree with you?

From a sociological perspective, I'm facinated by the implications of this experiment. I hypothesize that it'll be a collosal failure, as fewer regulations would be more likely to work on land where you're not likely to drown because someone didn't need to inspect their contruction guy's work, but I'm still interested to see how it actually plays out.

Yeah, well, that's basically what happened in Rapture. Shit. Fell. Apart.

I suspect at a low enough scale, this might actually work out, at least for a while, but if these things get big enough/high enough population, they're doomed like Brandon's Monky.

Well, assuming this ever actually happens - my money's on "hahaha no" - I think it's pretty likely that even staunch libertarians will realize it's for their own long-term financial and personal benefit if the city they chose to move to isn't likely to sink into the fucking ocean. Sure, libertarians may be crazy, but they aren't cartoon villains.

No minimum wage, because a floating sea fortress is going to have a McDonalds and a bunch of teenagers to staff it. No weapons restrictions because God Forbid you get your crate of AK47's shipped over and then someone tells you "no those are too rifle-y".

Libertarians be crazy, yo.

Honestly, they might as well just buy Sealand. It's been on the market for over 4 years, for the low low price of $1 billion USD.

Actually I'm going to start a Libertarian fringe that is for cartoon villains. Transportation overregulation is making it nearly impossible for dishonest, hardworking Americans to tie ladies to railroad tracks.

Johnny Landmine said:
Actually I'm going to start a Libertarian fringe that is for cartoon villains. Transportation overregulation is making it nearly impossible for dishonest, hardworking Americans to tie ladies to railroad tracks.

At last all my dreams can come true! I'll grab my moustache and meet you at the docks.