It's pretty simple. Libertarians want to minimize a state's power over them. Some ways to do that are to shrink the state or somehow secede from the state. Thi

It's pretty simple. Libertarians want to minimize a state's power over them. Some ways to do that are to shrink the state or somehow secede from the state. Thiel has found a third way to be a Libertarian, albeit one that only one person can pursue at a time. He can just own the state. So whereas the Seasteading people have to worry about the US stepping in and invading their boat, Thiel's boat is America and he has to defend it from China.