Libertarians dream of living on a floating city with no government regulation but there are some challenges. Seastead designs tend to fall into one of three categories: ship-shaped structures, barge-like structures based on floating pontoons and platforms mounted on semi-submersible columns, like offshore oil installations. Over-ordering by cruise lines means there are plenty of big, [...]
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“Because the first place most of us want to experiment with looser building codes is 320 kilometres out to sea.”
Tabatha Southey has this fantastic column in today’s Globe & Mail on a new libertarian society 320 kilometres out in the ocean. Peter Thiel, the billionaire founder of PayPal and Facebook financier, has also embarked on a plan for a new society, for which the location has already been decided and money may not be [...]
