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?”

  • 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