billionaire creating rapture

[Biodeamon]

so a billionaire is actually creating a utopia over the sea with no laws. yah rlly.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/tabatha-southey/a-billionaires-waterworld-takes-libertarianism-to-new-depths/article2135815/

any thoughts on how this could go?

As long as they don't run into any conmen named frank or any wacky scientists with her last name being a line from a christmas song things should probably be just fine....

 

[CM156_v1legacy]

Libertarian Island? Yeah, that sounds like a place I'd like to live.

Well, until some military force from a criminal orginization decides to attack. Then, not so much.

 

[The_Vigilant]

A shame it's on the sea instead of under it.

I'd live there.

 

[EvanJO]

I'm assuming it's going to have a nuclear reactor? That's kind of neat, I guess. Don't really see the point.

 

[Farther than stars]

Sure, freedom's a good thing, but then I don't trust my fellow humans with too much freedom yet. Because when you start applying that freedom to physical property and human life, things usually tend to go the wrong way. Rapture is a fictional example of that, but any actual anarchy tends to descend into dictatorship at some point along the line.
Either way, the article didn't interest me too much, because when journalists start to confuse "then" and "than", it speaks volumes about their expertise in the profession.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Hell I'd live there, sounds pretty awesome.

I guess if you have the money and nothing else better to do, then why not.

 

[Hyper-space]

Seriously, the only way for this to ever work is if everyone (or at least, the people who will inhabit the community) was perfect and ALWAYS made the right decision, so you can pretty much chalk this up to a pipe-dream.

People (and especially billionaires) will always try and accumulate as much power as possible, meaning that left to its own devices, this libertarian utopia would end up as a dictatorship, or an oligarchy made up of a few people who would ensure that the inhabitants would enjoy less freedom than they do now.

And to the posters who would enjoy living in such a place, you would either have to be super-rich (as this entire exercise really only benefits the rich) or willing to endure abuse from those who have the power to do so.

 

[Worgen]

I think I would rather invade and pillage it

 

[Lukeman1884]

Someone should give him a copy of Bioshock. We all remember what happened to Rapture, right? Right

 

[aegix drakan_v1legacy]

I don't think it'll go well....It'll be Brink meets Bioshock, but without the plasmids...

Or it'll be a dictatorship. A nasty corporate one.

 

[King of the Sandbox]

If there are plasmid vending machines, I'm there. Although I'd have to puncture my own ear drums so I couldn't hear anyone say "Would you kindly..."

 

[TonyVonTonyus]

No laws? Sign me up as quickly as possible, no laws means no cops and mostly no gouvernment wasting their time on laws they don't want to enforce and then making a real difference.

 

[God's Clown]

Spoiler

so a billionaire is actually creating a utopia over the sea with no laws. yah rlly.
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/opinions/tabatha-southey/a-billionaires-waterworld-takes-libertarianism-to-new-depths/article2135815/

any thoughts on how this could go?

As long as they don't run into any conmen named frank or any wacky scientists with her last name being a line from a christmas song things should probably be just fine....

I'd say it work quite well for at least a little while,well till the pirates show up and massacre everybody.me personally I'd just buy an island it'd be cheaper and easier to secure plus none of the whole possible sinking thing.

Islands can actually go under the water though when the sea level rises, so you'd have to pick an island that is quite a bit above sea level.

 

[Saulkar]

Perfect place to model a videogame environment then blow it the fuck up.

 

[SoranMBane]

Yeah, that's some nice unbiased, totally not-slanted reporting in that article right there. /sarcasm

Okay, now that my inner journalism student is done being a dick (seeing the word "I" in a straight news article makes me twitchy), I can get to the matter at hand; I'd probably live there. If they mean "Libertarianism" in the essentially Objectivist sense and not the anarchistic sense that it's often perverted into, then that's a good thing, and I support this little experiment 100% as long as they do it right and, unlike Rapture, actually stick to those those free market, individual rights-supporting principles. Also, having tight security to keep pirates and other unsavory types at bay would help to, but I'm guessing that's a given.