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

    Vote with their houses

    What 0 awareness of what material conditions are does to a mf. I mean the amount of privilege one must have to come to this conclusion is wild. Houses are hard to come by for minorities and the poor now unless you’re gonna subsidize them in your libertarian paradise (lol) how are they gonna get these unproven expensive new interlocking floating house pods?

    Also they decouple from the city and then what? Unless we also have Star Trek food replicators on this libertarian ocean city they’re just gonna go off in the wilderness? Or go to a “competing” floating city state, i mean “firm”? “If you don’t like it, get out” isn’t gonna help the marginalized if the people running all these things, tech bros most likely, still have biases against them.

    • comi [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      be on a pod

      Money run out.

      drone delivery don’t work

      sat phone is disconnected

      you try to wave to people in near pods

      they are too busy reading ayn rand

    • SoloboiNanook [comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      No you dont understand we are going to hook up to the cruise ship and do some uh farming or something and it will all be in the shape of the bitcoin logo!!! its like building dubai but on a boat!

      All you need to read about how fucking insane their worldview is, is the paragraph where some dude is talking about his retired life, working 5 hours a month on a houseboat in Canada and i quote "Enraptured by his lifestyle, Romundt wondered why everyone wasn’t living this way".

      wow geez dude i wonder?!?!?!

    • 6bicycles [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      What 0 awareness of what material conditions are does to a mf. I mean the amount of privilege one must have to come to this conclusion is wild. Houses are hard to come by for minorities and the poor now unless you’re gonna subsidize them in your libertarian paradise (lol) how are they gonna get these unproven expensive new interlocking floating house pods?

      They're not and that's the point?

      This is democracy for land owning white males with some off the rough edges sanded off, i.e., libertarianism