Wednesday, August 17, 2011

Though in my master plan ...

The US Navy would make sure none of them came back:

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, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.

Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build sovereign nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch--free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be "a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons."

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Go. Go fast, go far, go soon.

Great thanks to Susie for the link.

5 comments:

DBK said...

They'll need a mountain of labor to look after their privileged asses. I hope the workers unionize and refuse to work for less than half a million/yr each. Want your clothes washed, your bed made, your pampered little ass powdered while you steal other people's ideas and make a fortune? Pay the help half a million each per year. Ha!

DBK said...

Also, $1.25 mil? That wouldn't build a private doc big enough for his yacht. If they had a thousand rich assholes who want to build the island and live there, each giving $1.25 mil, it probably wouldn't be enough to do the job. It isn't an oil rig. These buttheads can't live without a house on existing land that costs a couple of million. Thiel sounds like a very wealthy, successful halfwit. If he gave that money for that project for real, the courts need to appoint a guardian for him.

David Aquarius said...

Shit, a well placed 5" shell could take out an entire 'country'.

Cool!

Anonymous said...

I'm not sure but I believe that an American law was passed regarding the laws of the sea in the 1980s that directly forbade this kind of nonsense.

Dude better get a real good lawyer.

Gordon said...

Sounds fine to me. Put 'em all in one place. Takes less explosives that way.

Might be more fun to drill holes in the sonofabitch and watch 'em sink nice and slow. After the "high seas rescue budget" is teabagged, of course.