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Humans are yet to master building cities on land let alone a floating one. Dealing with the logistic and infrastructure of a floating city will most likely make

by 3327 11y ago

Humans are yet to master building cities on land let alone a floating one. Dealing with the logistic and infrastructure of a floating city will most likely make it too costly. For small nations countries in need of land like Singapore sucking out sand from the ocean and refilling it will still probably be cheaper safer and more valuable due to the low maintanance filled land requires relative to a floating one.

aaron695 11y ago
> Humans are yet to master building cities on land let alone a floating one. Last I checked people living in cities have a better quality of live than those who don't? We have the longest life spans and are happier than we have ever been in part thanks to cities. > Dealing with the logistic and infrastructure of a floating city will most likely make it too costly. I think you're missing the whole point of seasteading. It's about freedom from government. Which will include tax avoidance, even if it's 10 times the cost of a normal city it's still viable if the rich want to move there.
- anigbrowl 11y ago
  The problem is that hardly anyone is paying so much tax that it would be worth it to do this. any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it.
  - Libbum 11y ago
    > any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it. Precisely the point of the detached nature of the planned houses. If there are thousands of different (yet most likely similar) governmental systems in place, then there are two options in this situation: 1. Up and leave, travel to a new city which fits better with your current modality. 2. If a large swath of the population is disenfranchised the government must act swiftly in order to keep the city running, otherwise its state will fail and everyone will detach and live elsewhere. We will no doubt see many more failed systems than long-standing ones, which is essentially part of the appeal in my opinion.

by 3327 11y ago

aaron695 11y ago

> Humans are yet to master building cities on land let alone a floating one. Last I checked people living in cities have a better quality of live than those who don't? We have the longest life spans and are happier than we have ever been in part thanks to cities. > Dealing with the logistic and infrastructure of a floating city will most likely make it too costly. I think you're missing the whole point of seasteading. It's about freedom from government. Which will include tax avoidance, even if it's 10 times the cost of a normal city it's still viable if the rich want to move there.

anigbrowl 11y ago
The problem is that hardly anyone is paying so much tax that it would be worth it to do this. any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it.
- Libbum 11y ago
  > any city worth living in is going to have government of its own, and some people living under that government's administration are going to end up feeling disenfranchised by it. Precisely the point of the detached nature of the planned houses. If there are thousands of different (yet most likely similar) governmental systems in place, then there are two options in this situation: 1. Up and leave, travel to a new city which fits better with your current modality. 2. If a large swath of the population is disenfranchised the government must act swiftly in order to keep the city running, otherwise its state will fail and everyone will detach and live elsewhere. We will no doubt see many more failed systems than long-standing ones, which is essentially part of the appeal in my opinion.