Comments on: Seasteading

By: Curt Howland

Curt Howland — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:36:07 +0000

Too bad that Oceania.org never got off the ground. Oh well, same idea.

The answer to Rothbard’s objections is that it’s not science fiction when someone actually does it. He might have objected to speculating about what did not exist, but that doesn’t mean he would not have promoted property rights in space if people had been there.

But then, I’m an L. Neil Smith reader.

By: Marcelious

Marcelious — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:41:05 +0000

I want to live on this type of floating city.
http://vincent.callebaut.org/page1-img-lilypad.html

By: Patri Friedman

Patri Friedman — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:39:06 +0000

Polycentric Order has a nice counter-argument to Rothbard here.

By: Fephisto

Fephisto — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:49:53 +0000

Whoa! Disregard my previous statement! The last seasteading site I saw was Patri Friedman’s, this site you’ve pointed me to looks a lot better!

By: Fephisto

Fephisto — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 09:45:58 +0000

I remember reading about this, and at the time seeing a fairly low cost of construction, but…..no models.

1) I’d like to see a model of this work.

2) Then I’ll seriously consider taking out a loan to try this out.

By: Michael A. Clem

Michael A. Clem — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:35:28 +0000

The initial outlays must be massive, I don’t see any way around that, but if it results in a sufficiently self-supporting system, well-worth it. Bring on the entrepreneurs! But watch out for the “privateers” of the future (government-supported bounties or pirates)…

By: Duff OMelia

Duff OMelia — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:43:18 +0000

I think their approach is brilliant.

By: David C

David C — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:50:17 +0000

I think some day decades into the future, investors will figure out that (say) 30000 people on a ship with high economic freedoms will create a lot more wealth than 30000 people in some 3rd world country ruled by losers. Enough extra wealth to pay for the ship they live on.

They will then produce an endless stream of ships, filling them up with an endless stream of people from countries all over the world – to monetizing this difference … finding the optimum number of people, size of ship, and so on along the way.

I do not think these ships will be ‘seasteads’ though. IMHO, the cost and effort of an individual jumping from one ship to another would likely be a lot less than the cost of breaking off a unit of people on a ‘seastead’.

By: Brainpolice

Brainpolice — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 08:36:36 +0000

For a while now I’ve known of an anarcho-capitalist who pushes for this. It’s intrigueing, although not my first choice of options.

By: Mark

Mark — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:44:32 +0000

Reminds me of SeaQuest DSV.

By: Eric Sundwall

Eric Sundwall — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 01:07:02 +0000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZTDF-4swps

Sealand is for sale.