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?”

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    I love the how clueless the reasoning behind these kind of projects are.

    "No government can touch us if we build our new utopia on a boat!" — Do these fuckwits actually think governments would leave them alone in the off chance their project ever evolved to something more serious than a few fedora-wearing weirdos on a boat?

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      nerds like this usually think they're the ones who will figure out a loophole in "the rules" without having any idea how power actually works

      • SoyViking [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        Believing that power follows The Rules is one thing. Lots of people believe that. Propaganda machine goes brr and all that.

        But libertarians believe that while simultaneously believing that government is evil, immoral and tyrannical. They can't even make their own beliefs internally coherent.

      • bort_simp_son [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Showing the evil, tyrannical, totalitarian, authoritarian 1984 government my property deed so they have no choice but to leave me alone. If that doesn't work, I'll remind them what the 4th Amendment says until I become immortal.