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People with money want to do stuff with that money. Somehow the thesis is that people should intervene? We do this already, they’re called laws. Nobody can bu
by hyko 6y ago
People with money want to do stuff with that money. Somehow the thesis is that people should intervene?
We do this already, they’re called laws.
Nobody can buy their way out of civilisation, even if some people obviously dream of doing so. No man is an island entire of itself.
- EvilEy3 6y ago> Nobody can buy their way out of civilisation, even if some people obviously dream of doing so. No man is an island entire of itself. Sure they can. Find a place which is not taken already, have enough money and you're on.
- hyko 6y agoFind a place which is not taken already There isn’t anywhere, and if there is, there will be war over it. Things like seasteading and colonising the solar system are for the birds; these are not prime areas of real estate. You’re talking about places that we struggle to keep robotic probes alive for a significant amount of time, never mind people. If I was to attempt this, I’d probably go for Antarctica, but the challenges involved make the endeavour just seem absolutely ludicrous. have enough money Nobody on earth has enough money for this. This is all ignoring the fact that once you found a new nation, you’re just recreating what you were trying to escape from in the first place: the hell of other people. Probably worth just paying the parking fines instead.
- onion2k 6y agoThe whole point of seasteading like the MS Satoshi in the article, and space colonization to a lesser degree, is to remove yourself from the constraints of a country's laws and develop a society of your own.
- hyko 6y agoYeah, and I’m saying it’s not possible. Everything these people do and have done is with the blessing of established countries, they simply don’t have the resources to establish viable corporate colonies outside the reach of civilisation. The primary blocker is that the nations who have nurtured these characters will not take kindly to any assertion of independent sovereignty. They’re funny that way, and tend to start to start wars over such things. $200 billion is a lot of money for a person to posses, but it’s a rounding error in an international conflict. Best to stick to what they are good at: finding highly profitable niches (through profit and government subsidies) within existing civilisations (which I suspect is what they’re actually planning).