I think citizenship should be bought and sold. Like, on eBay.
Among the deka-mega-murderers only Stalin and Mao outrank him.
On murders-per-year-per-capita only Pol Pot outranks him.
On mustaches, Yahya Khan easily wins.
Source: Prof. Rummel's rather gruesome book on the great mega-murderers of the 20th Century here:
https://libgen.rs/book/index.php?md5=CE85B757BBBAC3B0322B55D873141FA8
#piratelife
Listing some considerations:
- political risk / proximity to potential threats
- cost of shipping goods inbound
- cost of shipping exports to markets
- weather events and other natural hazards
- availability of energy resources
- availability of mineral resources
- availability of fisheries resources
- availability of marine nutrients in surrounding waters
- ease of access for tourists and short-term residents
What have I missed?
Other thoughts:
Cost of shipping doesn't require absolutely close proximity to the land nations concerned as long as the seastead is close to a shipping lane.
If the seastead can move, even very slowly, then many hazards can be circumvented / defused.
I would mess up the tones, and say something embarrassing if I tried :-p
East and West Germany went through a few cycles of rapprochement and hostility, before tying the knot under less-than-equal circumstances.
I suppose the Korean Peninsula could to. A rapprochement between Japan and the PRC could catalyse it.
A funny thought! And we might be surprised. But Kim's friendship probably has too high a price.
SK did some very interesting work in the 80s on laser enrichment. Unlike gas centrifuges, lasers are not that closely watched. 1000 sats says they have working nukes three months after breaking up with USA.
Which is really not that impressive a timeframe, I guess.
I like this plan. I have a friend who lives in his 35ft cruiser on a lake. Cruiser yachts ARE designed to be livable rather than speedy, but yeah its pretty spartan.
No one is going to give us a billion dollars for a blue-sky pitch, unfortunately. A seastead will need to be developed incrementally, making mistakes along the way.
Do you live in a marina, nostr:npub10npj3gydmv40m70ehemmal6vsdyfl7tewgvz043g54p0x23y0s8qzztl5h?
What services does it provide? What do you get in town? What have you been able to make/repair aboard? What can you tell us about your boat?
Despite insincere assurances to the contrary, there are two classes of nation-states.
(a) Those who have nukes and sovereignty.
(b) Those who do not.
I'll grant there is a grey zone inhabited by Japan, Taiwan, maybe South Korea where they've had the blueprints for years, and have the components built, but haven't tested and play along at being non-nuclear good citizens.
Everyone else needs a nuclear Daddy, and they need to keep him very happy.
That is cool AF!
My city would go into panic lockdown for a week if it was spotted here :-p
^ This!
The way other people drive... I had a shiny new hire car two weeks while mine got patched up, and I was sweating every time I left it in a carpark or drove it in rush hour. The excess would've been brutal.
Ten year old corolla, and scratched, for me!
Hey Aeontropy,
Love your work, esp how you share the prompts! So many artists are so cagey about their prompt engineering techniques, really appreciate you sharing so we can learn.
A question re IPFS, if you don't mind.
I'm using Amethyst over Tor, and most images preview automatically, if a bit slowly. But not IPFS-gateway images, like yours above.
Is that an Amethyst thing, or a latency thing, or what, do you know?
But the author's "localised" economies will still result in mass death. I dont have a nice solution. We are riding a tiger built of complexity and obfuscation (politically, economically, ecologically) and she's turned her head and now is eyeing us hungrily.
On energy, I'm reading Vaclav Smil's "How The World Really Works", its dense, depressing and entirely worthwhile.
That's the remaining 1%. They would disagree vehemently on whether publicly traded corporations, Trusts, and attendant bureaucracy are stable, socially beneficial, and worthy of legal/societal standing and protection.
I'm with Proudhon there, but I don't think anyone should ban them. Just deny legal personhood to anyone who isn't a person and the problem will solve itself. Partnerships and maybe even member-benefit mutuals have more upside than downside, but these days we have self-executing contracts and DAO. There's no need to get the courts involved. And if you don't understand them, maybe stick to self-employment and common-law contracts.
Its PHD-level hard in multiple disciplines. The man was a genius polymath. But we knew that!
True, unquestionably true.
Some technologies have been built or re-built for freedom.
Its mostly about the choices baked into the engineering, and the incentives operating on the designers.