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If I had a dollar for every "libertarian" including McAfee who thinks that Belize is some sort of lawless free-for-all zone... Or a dollar for every weird shad

If I had a dollar for every "libertarian" including McAfee who thinks that Belize is some sort of lawless free-for-all zone... Or a dollar for every weird shady "entrepreneur" that thinks relocating their legal residence to Belize or Cyprus will solve all of their tax problems... There is a whole gross venn diagram overlap of libertarians, cryptocurrency bros, penny stock pump and dump, internet porn and casino hosting operations, NFT promoters, "hustle culture", amateur tax avoidance offshoring self proclaimed "experts", people selling naturopathic dick pills online, people selling shares in bare land real estate ventures on economically-uninhabitable sandbar islands, etc.

BLKNSLVR 5y ago
And then there's Mossack Fonseca who did it the "right" way for all the people rich enough to require and afford their services. Where "right" means "properly structured to create the necessary opacity". I find it hard to blame the small guys with big dreams since they're only trying to emulate their tax evading, asset-hiding heroes.
- walrus01 5y ago
  totally agreed. it's not just things like caymanian corporations, plenty goes on within the square mile: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem/03-global-money-laundering-capital https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/04/murky-deals-with-corruptistan-fast-becoming-quintessentially-british https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/04/murky-... https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f91432c785e4e06a8fb2c7370d4ca63d https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f914... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-britain-london.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-br...
postingawayonhn 5y ago
McAfee left Belize in 2013 and died in a Spanish prison last year.
- dehrmann 5y ago
  He claims he was $WHACKD, but he's not a credible source.
- walrus01 5y ago
  and prior to that he seemed to be treating belize like some sort of libertarian utopia and promiting it as such (right up until the totally weird murder case/sudden unexplained death of some neighbour of his, when he went on the lam)
throwaway14356 5y ago
sounds like a vibrant economy. maybe even worth donating if they can just pack their bag and leave for the prommised land

BLKNSLVR 5y ago

And then there's Mossack Fonseca who did it the "right" way for all the people rich enough to require and afford their services. Where "right" means "properly structured to create the necessary opacity". I find it hard to blame the small guys with big dreams since they're only trying to emulate their tax evading, asset-hiding heroes.

walrus01 5y ago
totally agreed. it's not just things like caymanian corporations, plenty goes on within the square mile: https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem/03-global-money-laundering-capital https://www.chathamhouse.org/2021/12/uks-kleptocracy-problem... https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/04/murky-deals-with-corruptistan-fast-becoming-quintessentially-british https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/dec/04/murky-... https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f91432c785e4e06a8fb2c7370d4ca63d https://apnews.com/article/business-london-europe-media-f914... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-britain-london.html https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/11/opinion/pandora-papers-br...

postingawayonhn 5y ago

McAfee left Belize in 2013 and died in a Spanish prison last year.

dehrmann 5y ago
He claims he was $WHACKD, but he's not a credible source.
walrus01 5y ago
and prior to that he seemed to be treating belize like some sort of libertarian utopia and promiting it as such (right up until the totally weird murder case/sudden unexplained death of some neighbour of his, when he went on the lam)

throwaway14356 5y ago

sounds like a vibrant economy. maybe even worth donating if they can just pack their bag and leave for the prommised land