Billionaire Funds Floating Libertarian Communities

yes, i believe Thiel has an offer to match donations up to 500K from others to the organization.
 
is he into semi-practical utopias in an ayn rand manner? practical utopias are an oxymoron, quite often!
 
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters
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Only $1.25 million?

I think the thread title should be: "Cheap Billionaire Funds Floating Libertarian Communities"
 
The project is at the planning stage, so it doesn't really require that much money. The big money will need to come when things move to the construction stage.

Their idea is not to create a utopia, but to create a situation where forms of government can compete. (With self government being a primary form to explore.) Imagine each of these is like a condo and there's a consensual government.

The key guy at the institute is Patri Friedman who is the son of David Friedman. David Friedman is an economist and the author of The Machinery of Freedom which explores how to promote and defend liberty while having little to now government. David Friedmans' father is Milton Friedman.

This effort, far more than anything else, is the one that gives me hope for liberty in my lifetime.
 
The Seasteading Institute is not setting up construction but they are facilitating the idea and offering knowledge including engineering structural analysis and such to the open community.

The construction is left to others.
 
I wonder if it would not be more effective to divvy up that money and use it to pay people to move to NH for the free state project :)
 
economics102 said:
I wonder if it would not be more effective to divvy up that money and use it to pay people to move to NH for the free state project :)
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Honestly, I think it will be easier to build a sea-stead and have no government rather than trying to reduce the size of government in New Hampshire.
 
yoshimaroka said:
Honestly, I think it will be easier to build a sea-stead and have no government rather than trying to reduce the size of government in New Hampshire.
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Any vessel, structure or barge that would serve as the base for this idea will be subject to more government than you can imagine.

On anything bigger than a small pleasure craft, (and even not those so much anymore) the sea is a prison, an incomprehensible labyrinth of global UN regulations that will make your head spin and cost billions of dollars.
 
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