It’s interesting but all of these machinations are beginning to remind me of some of the Dystopian novels of the last few decades especially the ones where ‘someone’ or a bunch of ‘someones’ get together and form a sea-borne nation that relies on ‘freedom of the seas’ to get out from under the thumbs of the Landlubbers and their rapacious governments.
But getting back to black banking and wealth conservation efforts. Good luck is all I can say, what one person can figure out is sure to be made illegal and subject to total confiscation by one government or another. Especially as those Governments are rapidly running out of ‘other peoples money’.
Someone yesterday mentioned Caligula and his policies in Rome. This is beginning to look sort of familiar I think.
The trouble with the dystopian projects is that they were open to the public and advertised. A real effort would strongly shun both of those things, because it would only work when it was invisible.
Instead of Caligula, I would instead look to the reign of China’s first emperor, Qin Shi Huang. Focused on unifying his empire, the positive things he did were standardization of the written language, weights and measures, to start building the great wall, and things of that sort. But he also set up the world’s first modern style police state.
He decided that China’s history should begin with his reign, so he ordered the destruction of all history books and for thousands of scholars to be buried alive. His secret police kept extensive dossiers on everyone, and they used an enormous network of informants. Local petty officials had the power of life and death over others.
When he died, lots of his top officials met quick ends, and much of his police state machinery was disabled.