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?”

  • viva_la_juche [they/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    all the land on earth was taken

    They wanted to unironically do a bioshock but a boat was the best they could do rn lol

    • happybadger [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Yarr harr diddly dee, no age of consent on international seas. Captaining drunk without insurance fees. I'm a libertarian.

      • ElChapoDeChapo [he/him, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        :maxwell: literally had (still has?) a seasteading company she was collaborating on with the Clinton Foundation so yeah, this is actually a thing and it's not just the libertarians, it's the neoliberals too because neoliberalism is just libertarianism with extra steps.