Yeah, 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 resou

Yeah, 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).