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The advantage would be living with people who shared the same values as I do and not being obstructed by the federal laws most of us would find distasteful.

• alabut 18y ago
  But you're going to have to have laws and taxes of some sort to keep the mini-society going - how do you know they'll be ones you don't object to? There's plenty of countries around the world without the same laws as the u.s. and I don't see a massive outflow of libertarian hackers to them, so I'm not sure there's really as much demand as the builders think.
  • ibsulon 18y ago
    It's much easier to find 10,000 to 250,000 people who have the same values as you and can create a new culture. While I wouldn't be interested in a libertarian society, I might be interested in a completely secular system with full equality for GLBT citizens and a culture much like San Francisco without the federal impositions on the culture. (I wouldn't mind moving to the Netherlands either.) Further, the laws can be more tailored for a culture when there are fewer than a million inhabitants. Common sense can work a lot better, and exile can be an option, making prison expenses much more managable. (After all, no one is saying that these would be granting citizenship.)
    • alabut 18y ago
      I see, so you like the idea of iteration on the policies that govern people, more than having specific freedoms. Makes sense, I wish we could open source bills for Congressional review, for example. It's funny you should mention Holland - I visited during my honeymoon about 6 mo ago and thought it was gorgeous, especially all the clean graphic design, but read in my tourist book that there's a right wing resurgence and they're cracking down on a lot of the things Amsterdam is famous for, despite all kinds of studies showing that it's improved society.