The Atlas Shrugged Themepark?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Thread over. There's no way we can produce anything even remotely as funny as this

They're all going to die.

Government as industry. Floating industry with captive "customer" populations.

What could go wrong?

(Totally not missing the hilarious similarity to our idea a couple of years ago for buying an old cargo ship and converting it into a floating Nation of Discordia.)

[Doktor Howl]

Thread over. There's no way we can produce anything even remotely as funny as this

They're all going to die.

Government as industry. Floating industry with captive "customer" populations.

What could go wrong?

Wage or even chattel slavery followed by a nice hurricane.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Thread over. There's no way we can produce anything even remotely as funny as this

They're all going to die.

Government as industry. Floating industry with captive "customer" populations.

What could go wrong?

Wage or even chattel slavery followed by a nice hurricane.

It's going to be AWESOME. SO

SO


GREAT.

[Doktor Howl]

Thread over. There's no way we can produce anything even remotely as funny as this

They're all going to die.

Government as industry. Floating industry with captive "customer" populations.

What could go wrong?

Wage or even chattel slavery followed by a nice hurricane.

It's going to be AWESOME. SO

SO


GREAT.

Them:  HELP US!

US Coast Guard:  We can't help noticing that you haven't paid your premiums.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Thread over. There's no way we can produce anything even remotely as funny as this

They're all going to die.

Government as industry. Floating industry with captive "customer" populations.

What could go wrong?

Wage or even chattel slavery followed by a nice hurricane.

It's going to be AWESOME. SO

SO


GREAT.

Them:  HELP US!

US Coast Guard:  We can't help noticing that you haven't paid your premiums.

ZING!

[Cain]

Actually, I can see it really going places in only 30 years... the first ten, a Utopia of building and cooperation, the second ten, we see the first failures, the last ten, pure anarchist feudalism, disaster, and mayhem out on the open seas!

I know that bashing the libertarians is fun, but on a side note, the Seasteading Foundation claims that they do not support one government form over another, but instead just want to promote these structures so that governmental experimentation of all flavors might be pursued, since there is no frontier on land that this can viably occur anymore.

Philosophically, I could agree with such a program, but realistically centralised states have always had massive advantages over decentralised states, and historically the former tend to eliminate the latter quite easily, and states tend to disapprove of competition at the best of times.

Which really means this is only going to end up one of two ways - if it fails internally, well, no-one will cry much.  And if it succeeds somehow...privateers.

[Disco Pickle]

Relevant to this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Ty9jFRtOw&feature=share

"I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO FAIL"

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

Relevant to this thread:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0Ty9jFRtOw&feature=share

"I CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS TO FAIL"

One of the commentors has a great point; why don't wealthy Libertarians (who I don't think there are many of, actually) colonize Somalia? It's ripe for the picking, all they need is their own militia. A million dollars in Somalia would probably buy you a pretty big start from which to expand an empire.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

That would involve teabaggers living in the same place as a bunch ofpoor black people.

[Nephew Twiddleton]

And muslims. I forgot about them being muslim.

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

That would involve teabaggers living in the same place as a bunch ofpoor black people.

Point.

[Elder Iptuous]

I think i'm missing something.
everyone is gleefully thinking about how Mr. Thiel's Island is going to burn to the seafloor in a spectacular failure of radical libertarian foolishness....
but.
all i've seen is that he's donated 1.25M to the seasteading institue, which specifically says on their website that they aren't going to be building any islands themselves.  they just do studies, etc.
so...
who's making an island here?

[Mesozoic Mister Nigel]

I think i'm missing something.
everyone is gleefully thinking about how Mr. Thiel's Island is going to burn to the seafloor in a spectacular failure of radical libertarian foolishness....
but.
all i've seen is that he's donated 1.25M to the seasteading institue, which specifically says on their website that they aren't going to be building any islands themselves.  they just do studies, etc.
so...
who's making an island here?

Nobody, yet. They hope to attract investors who will build islands and experiment with different forms of government.

[Disco Pickle]

I think i'm missing something.
everyone is gleefully thinking about how Mr. Thiel's Island is going to burn to the seafloor in a spectacular failure of radical libertarian foolishness....
but.
all i've seen is that he's donated 1.25M to the seasteading institue, which specifically says on their website that they aren't going to be building any islands themselves.  they just do studies, etc.
so...
who's making an island here?

Come on Ippy, you've been here longer than I and you know that when ANY libertarian idea is discussed, no matter WHAT, it's met with :lulzlibertardians: are teh lail.

Concrete concepts are not necessary if the get in the way of teh lulz