Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands

[Hot Mega]

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/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html

 

[Hypergalaxy]

Pretty cool until a tsunami hits it. And I wonder what the fee will be to get on it. Kinda sounds like a haven for the rich to me.

 

[PlasmaTwa2]

I want to play Bioshock for some reason...

 

[Hot Mega]

Pretty cool until a tsunami hits it. And I wonder what the fee will be to get on it. Kinda sounds like a haven for the rich to me.

My thoughts exactly ...then they'll need a bailout (literally and figuratively) from the g'ment they're fleeing....:1orglaugh

 

[LukeEl]

Screw that they should be working on cybernetic parts for me, I need a new hand!

 

[Shifty]

Fucking asshat.

 

[Hypergalaxy]

My thoughts exactly ...then they'll need a bailout (literally and figuratively) from the g'ment they're fleeing....:1orglaugh

:1orglaugh Who knows maybe they will have some sort a defense field. These are some smart guys with a lot of $$$.

 

[Mayhem]

Now, if these were artificial librarian islands, I might be interested. Each shop and business has it's own hot Marion the Librarian running it, glasses-on-a-chain, resting atop her ample busom, armed with a wooden ruler to give me a good whack if I misbehave........yeah, I can see myself renouncing my Americanness for that.


Libertarians? meh, they fuck like old people. :stir:

 

[titsrock]

Haven't we already seen this idea tried before?

By this guy?