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The Billionaire King of Techtopia
- nirvana 15y agoIt is interesting to see the Friedman families multi-generation effort to create freedom. First there is the well known work of Milton Friedman, and as this article points out, his grandson Patri, is heading up the seasteading effort. Patri's father and Milton's son is David Friedman, a professor of economics, who wrote one of the great practical books about stateless societies: The Machinery of Freedom. Whenever seasteading comes up in mainstream media, the comments are often filled with standard issue statist worries like "who will provide protection?" or "bioshock!" or "watch out for pirates!" The Machinery of Freedom covers many of the issues that a government free society would need to deal with, and offers practical solutions to dealing with them, along with historical examples of those solutions being employed. Well worth reading for any libertarians who might read this.
- jacques_chester 15y agoSeasteading won't work, in my opinion. Basically, ask yourself: who will turn up first? Two groups. Group A will be purer-than-thou libertarians, who will immediately fall into bickering over whether they should pay for the diesel or not. Group B will be criminals who Group A will not, due to their purity, be able to evict. Eventually Group C, a nearby superpower with the world's largest navy, will grow tired of having a lawless nest of criminals nearby and will go flush it out. Because conveniently, that nest will have no sovereignty that it cares to recognise.
- rdl 15y agoGroup D, divers or cruise people who would enjoy spending a week or two in a timeshare near a dive site or reef without being in a small, expensive boat cabin.