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.

  • Rem [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Crypto cruise ship? What?

    I guess I gotta read the article, Idk how a cruise ship can be of crypto or whatever

    • Rem [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      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.

      These are THE DUMBEST PEOPLE ALIVE

      • Rem [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        “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

        • Rem [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          Okay just read the whole article, if I posted every hilarious line I'd just be quoting the entire thing lol

            • Nakoichi [they/them]M
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              3 years ago

              The difficulty in starting a new form of government, said Friedman, was simply a lack of space.

              Yep definitely nothing to be done there :gui-better:

          • Rem [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Actually one thing, the writer seems to want to fuck the Captain Harris character, there's smth going on there

            • different_eli [any]
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              3 years ago

              can you please put on your Captain's uniform for this zoom interview...Sir

      • Sacred_Excrement [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        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

  • Kanna [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    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

    :shrug-outta-hecks: I'm shocked

  • probabilityzero [he/him,comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    This is hilarious. How are rich people so fucking dumb?

    They bought a cruise ship for like $10 million despite having no plan. They just assumed they'd figure out the details like crew and insurance later somehow.