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Seasteading (at least in its current libertarian guise) has always seemed to me like a bunch of rich people just wanting to run (float?) away from the problems
by rfwhyte 5y ago
Seasteading (at least in its current libertarian guise) has always seemed to me like a bunch of rich people just wanting to run (float?) away from the problems they themselves helped create.
Like how about instead of spending billions on floating company towns, you spend some of that money on helping the billions of people globally who are sick, homeless or hungry?
But no, they just want private floating pleasure palaces where they can avoid paying taxes and do drugs, while the rest of us schmucks stuck on land continue to subsidize their "Entrepreneurship" by paying taxes that support the infrastructure their businesses exploit, and paying for the negative externalities their "Disruption" creates.
- jokethrowaway 5y agoThere is a solution for us schmucks too. Vote a government that reduce spending, and eventually remove taxes and the government itself. Let infrastructure (health care, police && safety insurance, court system, roads, banking, army) gradually become private services you need to pay to use. Companies won't be able to exploit infrastructure anymore, nobody gets their profits forcefully stolen by politicians on threat of violence (albeit some of the bureaucracy and management overhead will move to private companies).
- HWR_14 5y agoI (and, reading their comment, the poster you are responding to) doesn't see that as a "solution for us schmucks". Instead, a solution for us is a government with more spending, higher taxes on the rich, and halting the privatization of government services (and in some cases reversing it, like healthcare).