<story><title>The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theflyinghorse</author><text>It really does sound like a bunch of wealthy folks (and I don&amp;#x27;t mean your-town&amp;#x27;s-surgeon wealthy, I mean billionaire-class-wealthy) want to further remove themselves from laws that govern everybody else. Imagine this - a group of super wealthy bound by no laws of any nation but benefiting from them all. Terrifying.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if they will ever succeed or not, but it sure is heart-warming to see people still pushing these ideas and trying to get something going. Competition is  Good Thing and if we can come up with something better than nation-states, then we should. Personally I encourage these guys to keep experimenting, keep iterating, and keep pushing to break the mold.&lt;p&gt;Maybe &amp;quot;government&amp;quot; as we know it today is a just a &amp;quot;fashionable solution&amp;quot; - to riff on pg&amp;#x27;s earlier essay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>BurningFrog</author><text>A city of all billionaires sounds like a very small city.&lt;p&gt;Also, hiring for service jobs might be hard :)</text></comment>
<story><title>The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land</title><url>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-12-20/silicon-valley-seasteaders-go-looking-for-low-tax-sites-on-land</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>theflyinghorse</author><text>It really does sound like a bunch of wealthy folks (and I don&amp;#x27;t mean your-town&amp;#x27;s-surgeon wealthy, I mean billionaire-class-wealthy) want to further remove themselves from laws that govern everybody else. Imagine this - a group of super wealthy bound by no laws of any nation but benefiting from them all. Terrifying.</text></item><item><author>mindcrime</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t know if they will ever succeed or not, but it sure is heart-warming to see people still pushing these ideas and trying to get something going. Competition is  Good Thing and if we can come up with something better than nation-states, then we should. Personally I encourage these guys to keep experimenting, keep iterating, and keep pushing to break the mold.&lt;p&gt;Maybe &amp;quot;government&amp;quot; as we know it today is a just a &amp;quot;fashionable solution&amp;quot; - to riff on pg&amp;#x27;s earlier essay.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wavefunction</author><text>They&amp;#x27;d only be enabled by others whether that be robots or mercenaries&amp;#x2F;servants.  Monetary wealth is a human construct given form by belief.  They&amp;#x27;re still subject to the physical laws of reality.</text></comment>