Libertarian 'Utopia' Styled After Ayn Rand Book Spectacularly Falls Apart Almost Immediately (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/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.
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 (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/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:
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 (http://www.addictinginfo.org/2014/09/15/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.
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.
http://iiicitadel.com/index.html (http://iiicitadel.com/index.html)
Is this real?
Quote from: Trivial on September 18, 2014, 12:38:37 AM
http://iiicitadel.com/index.html (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.