Posted on 07/09/2018 9:29:16 AM PDT by qaz123
THE WORLD'S first floating city will boast its own government and cryptocurrency when it lays roots in the South Pacific in 2022, claim its backers.
Building work on this isolated "utopia" will begin next year following the signing of an agreement with French Polynesia's government in 2017.
The floating town is the brainchild of the Seasteading Institute, a non-profit co-founded by tech billionaire Peter Thiel (who sits on Facebook's board and is a former adviser to US President Donald Trump).
It's teaming up with a private entity called Blue Frontiers to build 300 houses on a seaborne platform off the island of Tahiti that will run under its own governance and boast its own money.
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Can it survive a major Cat 4 or Cat 5 storm?
In reality they are regressing us back to the ancient Greco world of city-states.
New York State is run by New York City
Illinois is run by Chicago
California is in a power struggle between San Francisco and Los Angles.
And many other states are dominated by cities as well.
Through the "Hidden Hand" of campaign finance these cities reach into other states to control them too.
C’mon, man. They have best of intentions and that’s all that matters.
Take away the ocean setting, is this going to be any different than Gates’ planned desert utopia? Where technology will interconnect everything. Except they won’t have any set-aside apartments for Section 8 or the illegal immigrants and refugees they say, they love so much. They’ll have their perfect little, liberal hipster place in the desert. While Thiel will have his perfect floating city of rich people.
At some point, we’ll all find out. And, you can say that I have a cold heart, but I’ll be laughing the whole time when one hits.
What could go wrong?
What is interesting is who those “rich white folks” are going to use to do the necessary labor for their utopia. Where will that worker class be housed, or fed? How will they be paid, and what will their wages be enough to buy in this utopia? It would hardly be a utopia if the difference between the residents and their workers is what I suspect it will be.
Hope it doesn’t “capsize” ala Hank.
What could possibly go wrong in “Utopia”? So silly.
Nothing, of course, I mean, it’s literally Heaven on Earth as created by Man, the Flawed.
PUGACHEV, this is going to be just like any other affluent area, anywhere in the world. Some will have quarters for domestic help. There will be a small, highly controlled area for a few, workers. The rest will commute, every day by boat. You cannot have those folks living in the utopia.
This going to be like any ‘upscale’ neighborhood in the States. They’ll allow them to come in and mow the lawn, do the laundry, clean the house, paint the windows, bus the tables and cook the food. After that they go directly home.
Many of us have experienced these kangaroo court governments.
different pictures, same nutty idea. we’ve seen this BS before. separating the fools from their money. note the ‘agreement was supposed to have been signed LAST year....was it?
True. One of my questions is, if they’re using some new crypto currency, who issues it? How do they buy it? Do they buy the crypto with US dollars, Euro’s, what?
That’s one of the things I’ve always asked folks that deal in crypto. If it’s supposed to replace traditional currency, why is it’s value then based on traditional currency?
Unless this thing is way offshore, it will be part of France. When push comes to shove, France will be calling the shots.
And I don’t see why anyone is concerned if they are not being forced to move there or pay for it.
“Wonder how utopian it would be if French Polynesia rescinded the deal unless Thiel promised to set aside 20-30% of the spots to some Section 8 recipients, muslim refugees and some MS13 El Salvadorans?”
Well, I’m sure you’re against all those setasides, so what’s wrong with Thiel creating his own mini state with none of that?
Personally I’m all in favor of these mini-experiments in governing. That’s what the founders envisioned when they gave the states most of the powers for each to run things as they saw fit. Of course over the years the feds have managed to usurp most of those powers.
Definitely against the setasides. And, I don’t necessarily have anything against Thiel doing this. He’s loaded. He gets other folks, that are loaded, to buy into it, good for them. Their money, let them do what they want. But, I think you actually made me see my own point.
Every state should be their own private island, as originally envisioned. That’s my personal view. Each state lives and governs how they want and how the people want, and they sink or swim.
Possible a moveable Galt’s Gulch, if you can pay someone to tow a floating homestead.
Kevin Costner’s going to have the last laugh.
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