Sorry, but you interjected a lot of assumptions, biases and opinions and are passing them as fact. > oligarchs, who will only be further advantaged by unregula

Sorry, but you interjected a lot of assumptions, biases and opinions and are passing them as fact. > oligarchs, who will only be further advantaged by unregulated markets. No one is saying about "unregulated markets". The idea is about having regulations being localized and based on the principles of much smaller communities. Take the principles from Localism applied to "virtual city-states", if you will. > wealthy family (...) is comfortable with inefficient plantation-based farming. Because they have a monopsony on the labor. On a world where you can decouple "where you live" from "where you work", this goes right out of the window. And it goes both ways: it can be either because the locals leave the place because they can find better opportunities, but also because people from other, wealthier places might look at these places as an opportunity for a low-cost of life and cheap labor. Go checkout /r/digitalnomad and you will see how many people are already doing or planning to do such a thing. For a more cynical person, this means "gentrification". For someone looking at things at a wider-scale, it means that people could eventually be able to do something that was only possible for the elites controlling multinational corporations.