Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands - Polidicks

[QUOTE=OvB;31769147]If I could build my own island it would be centered around scientific research and advancement. The population would consist souly of scientists and their families, professors and students, maintenance crews and other crews needed to keep a city afloat. The government system would probably be a liberal democracy.[/QUOTE] Just don't turn it into the Big Empty.

Well knowing how its funded by paypal. He'll find a way to fuck everyone over.

[QUOTE=-Chief-;31769166]Haven't all of these "Libertarian utopias" failed miserably before? [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micronation#New-country_projects[/url][/QUOTE] To be fair, all except one of those failed because of reasons unrelated to the ideology itself.

If Peter Thiel is anything like his company, this is going to be even more corrupt than it looks like.

[QUOTE=Contag;31769382]A liberal democracy? I would have thought that such a society would revolve around a quasi-democratic liberal technocracy. Though I suppose if everyone is an expert, it's semi-technocracy anyhow.[/QUOTE] I say that because of the general "left leaning" ideals people of the scientific and college community have. I honestly don't know what the political system would be like as long as it achieves its goals without exploiting the populace that helped them achieve it.

Well, if the United States crashes, I'll have a place to go.

Make it under the sea instead and you have Rapture

They'll lure people over with the promise of 'freedom' and those people will end up working in sweatshops

now this would make for a hilarious sit-com

[QUOTE=Biotoxsin;31770342]They'll lure people over with the promise of 'freedom' and those people will end up working in sweatshops[/QUOTE] Welcome to 1910?

[quote]The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."[/quote] Immediately, I want to see this fail colossally. Otherwise, an interesting idea.

Why looser building codes? I don't get that

Wait. No building codes, looser weapon regulations, no welfare, and a floating island city? Did they literally just play Brink and say, "Yeah crime and terrorist-ridden shantytowns sound like a good place to live."

[QUOTE=DanRatherman;31770948]Wait. No building codes, looser weapon regulations, no welfare, and a floating island city? Did they literally just play Brink and say, "Yeah crime and terrorist-ridden shantytowns sound like a good place to live."[/QUOTE] I think they don't realize that crappy floating islands tend to not last long.

Can't wait for the island to be bought out by one of its inhabitants, then sold for land

if i join, can i be dargon?

[QUOTE=DanRatherman;31770948]Wait. No building codes, looser weapon regulations, no welfare, and a floating island city? Did they literally just play Brink and say, "Yeah crime and terrorist-ridden shantytowns sound like a good place to live."[/QUOTE] Probably a mix of that and the dystopian worlds of Dishonored and BioShock.

Floating micronations would be amazing , we'd be able to completely separate ourselves from the world and be entirely self sufficient. and conduct inhumane , unethical experiments of merging dolphin and human DNA , of course.

[QUOTE=Instant Mix;31771239]and conduct inhumane , unethical experiments of merging dolphin and human DNA , of course.[/QUOTE] That's already been done. We call it "Michael Phelps."

[QUOTE=Instant Mix;31771239]Floating micronations would be amazing , we'd be able to completely separate ourselves from the world and be entirely self sufficient. and conduct inhumane , unethical experiments of merging dolphin and human DNA , of course.[/QUOTE] They'll rebel and build a dolphin nation and attack our navies and shipping lanes!

[QUOTE=Instant Mix;31771239]Floating micronations would be amazing , we'd be able to completely separate ourselves from the world and be entirely self sufficient. and conduct inhumane , unethical experiments of merging dolphin and human DNA , of course.[/QUOTE] You mad man! You're trying to create furries?! [editline]16th August 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=OvB;31771303]They'll rebel and build a dolphin nation and attack our navies and shipping lanes![/QUOTE] No they'll eat our babies and rape our women, LITERALLY!

Oh boy this is going to fail so hard if they follow all that shit, seriously, loose building codes on an artificial island? What the fuck. I'm all for artificial islands but I feel this one isn't going to end well, if it even gets built that is.

[QUOTE=DanRatherman;31770948]Wait. No building codes, looser weapon regulations, no welfare, and a floating island city? Did they literally just play Brink and say, "Yeah crime and terrorist-ridden shantytowns sound like a good place to live."[/QUOTE] makes sense except for the part where someone played Brink

I actually sort of like that there's no building code. I mean, that means that I can sail up in a shitty, cheap boat and then commence building a shanty-mansion around it. That'd be awesome.

I give it 15 years until they start shooting at each other and doing parkour on the island

super-villain island

It will feel like Minecraft except where your giant castle will collapse.

Sounds great, until it gets robbed blind by thousands of pirates who are stronger than Libertarians. And then parkour all over it.

[QUOTE=OvB;31770602]Welcome to 1910?[/QUOTE] "Hi, welcome to the island, you'll be sleeping over there in that ditch. Here's a sausage made from meat that we felt was acceptable enough it probably might not kill you."

Why can't people with good ideas and political opinions ever get funding for their utopias?