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

    Romundt began to realise that the cruise ship industry was, as he put it, “plagued by over-regulation”. (Along with airlines and nuclear power, according to Harris, it’s in “the top three”.)

    Lmao yea why would people have tight regulations on industries where things can go catastrophically wrong? :ancap-good:

    • ToastGhost [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      control rods? we dont need those! more reactions means more money!

      • CrimsonSage [any]
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        3 years ago

        Also the source of 5% of all GHG emissions the last time I checked. Literally we are ending our civilization to ferry Ohioans around the Caribbean on these tubs.

    • VILenin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      But what if I want to have my face ripped off by g-forces as the Boeing 737 Max I'm in nosedives into the ground?