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September 16, 2014, 05:22:11 PM Last Edit: September 16, 2014, 05:28:44 PM by LMNO, PhD (life continues)
Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

QuoteA community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...


EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

Mesozoic Mister Nigel

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September 16, 2014, 09:34:22 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 16, 2014, 05:22:11 PM
Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

QuoteA community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...


EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

That somehow makes it even more delicious.  :lol:
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The Good Reverend Roger

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September 16, 2014, 09:35:35 PM
Quote from: LMNO, PhD (life continues) on September 16, 2014, 05:22:11 PM
Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately

QuoteA community made up of American ex-pats deep in the South American hills of Chile...was supposed to be a libertarian paradise of rugged individualism. Instead it cost many of the people who bought into it almost everything, and now is buried under lawsuits...


EDIT: Upon a closer reading of the article, it fell apart because the whole thing was a scam and never really started in the first place.

I believe we had a thread about this, gambling on whether or not it was a scam.
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PopeTom

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September 17, 2014, 11:54:36 PM
Isn't that part of the Libertarian paradise though. 

People can do whatever the damn hell I want because there are no regulations.  If there is a disagreement parties solve it via litigation and everyone is happy. 

Unless of course the disagreement is along the lines of 'your product/service killed someone' since you can't litigate someone no longer dead.  Or in a case where the defense has way more money than the prosecution and can just red tape them into bankruptcy/submission.
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Random dumb luck got me here, random dumb luck will get me to where I'm going.

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Trivial

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September 18, 2014, 12:38:37 AM
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September 18, 2014, 01:16:17 AM
Quote from: Trivial on September 18, 2014, 12:38:37 AM
http://iiicitadel.com/index.html

Is this real?

IIRC, yes.  It is also a scam.

The Central American one was awesomer, though, because their way of keeping creeping liberalism out of their freedom was that you wouldn't be permitted to speak about liberal things.
" It's just that Depeche Mode were a bunch of optimistic loveburgers."
- TGRR, shaming himself forever, 7/8/2017

"Billy, when I say that ethics is our number one priority and safety is also our number one priority, you should take that to mean exactly what I said. Also quality. That's our number one priority as well. Don't look at me that way, you're in the corporate world now and this is how it works."
- TGRR, raising the bar at work.
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