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
Reposting this beauty from @cawsby yesterday cus it's fucking hilarious and everyone should read it.
Why, he asked, in one of the most advanced countries in the world, were they still using systems of government from 1787? (“If you drove a car from 1787, it would be a horse,” he pointed out.) Government, he believed, needed an upgrade, like a software update for a phone. “Let’s think of government as an industry, where countries are firms and citizens are customers!” he declared.
“Democracy,” the two men wrote, “would be upgraded to a system whereby the smallest minorities, including the individual, could vote with their houses.
How many times will libertarians reinvent feudalism
These are THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ALIVE
How many times will libertarians reinvent feudalism
Okay just read the whole article, if I posted every hilarious line I'd just be quoting the entire thing lol
Haha I thought the same thing. Every paragraph had a line that was just full on :galaxy-brain:
Yep definitely nothing to be done there :gui-better:
Actually one thing, the writer seems to want to fuck the Captain Harris character, there's smth going on there
can you please put on your Captain's uniform for this zoom interview...Sir
Someone tell them that the concept of breathing is older than humanity, so they should stop engaging in that
Also holy shit, you aren't wrong; I am like 5 paragraphs in and it just keeps getting more and more funny