Exactly. If you want your wealth to be truly secure, you'd have to store it on your island, otherwise it would be accessible to the same governments you're tryi

Exactly. If you want your wealth to be truly secure, you'd have to store it on your island, otherwise it would be accessible to the same governments you're trying to keep it away from. Wealth doesn't defend itself though, and a bunch of rich guys might think they're slick but even a rag-tag pontoon of somali pirates is going to have more battle experience: so you'd have to hire a small mercenary force to guard the place. How much will you pay them? What's stopping them from killing you and taking the place over for themselves? I can't see how paying taxes is the biggest driving force for this idea. I think these people want the freedom and power of an aristotelian-scale democracy without dealing with the majority of idiots that affect our lives every day.