The long read: Last year, three cryptocurrency enthusiasts bought a cruise ship. They named it the Satoshi, and dreamed of starting a floating libertarian utopia. It didn’t work out

A variety of considerations held him back. “The wife,” as he put it, had her doubts. He wasn’t sure about the “ginormous leap down in luxury” from living in deep residential comfort on land in the US midwest to living in a very small cabin on board a 30-year-old cruise ship. He was worried, too, by the limited facilities – “No kitchen of my own? Tiny bathrooms? Tiny everything?”

  • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!”

    Let’s not yikes what is wrong with libertarians

    • Awoo [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      "Let's find ways to say corporatism without saying corporatism or fascism."

    • CrimsonSage [any]
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      3 years ago

      Yes because the British East India Company was totally not responsible for repeated Holocaust level human induced catastrophes.