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I read an article a while back about an academic paper in which a new system of experimental government could be formed by a sort of international charter compa
by rwhitman 16y ago
I read an article a while back about an academic paper in which a new system of experimental government could be formed by a sort of international charter company on property leased from existing nations.
Instead of building ridiculously complicated, expensive structures in the middle of the ocean, to experiment with a new government it would be substantially easier to carve out a small chunk of territory in a place where land is cheap.
I think seasteading has its merits in terms of vacation resorts and perhaps fisheries or mining, but beyond that who wants to live out in the middle of the friggin ocean, especially if its going to cost as much as it would to live in a condo in san francisco?