But where the business inducements enter unprecedented terrain is health and safety regulation. Próspera won’t impose rules so much as curate prix fixe and à la carte menus of rules.
Delgado has held talks with a controversial gene-therapy startup, Minicircle, to open a clinic in Próspera. It will be funded by a “network of crypto investors,” according to its CEO, Machiavelli Davis. Davis runs in biohacking circles, a set best known for self-administering untested gene therapies.
In an address to a 2016 tech-libertarian conference in Austin, Texas, he explained he’d come to see poverty as essentially an antitrust problem. What government offered was simply “a basket of services,” he told his audience, “provided in a bundle for a fixed price by a single provider.” If competition and profit motive improve the quality of commercial services, couldn’t they do the same for government services?
This thinking leads to ancap usage of dual-power theory by offering competing ancap governance with existing governance as a means of overthrowing foreign governments. These will be sold to those foreign governments via the investment and growth their cities can bring about and then those cities will function as a trojan horse to overthrow the existing governance.
The natural outcome of this is inventing a new way to coup foreign governments.
Very when it's coming from them, it's eerily close to Lenin's analysis though.
Huh, you're right. Fascinating.
The bourgeoisie using material analysis and lenin's tactics for their own interests terrifies me. These people are the most dangerous people in the world.
Marxist horror movies and psychological thriller series would all just be about capitalism.
It cannot be overstated how important motivation is. Most communist leaders, whatever their other failings, were motivated to help working people. That was the goal, even if they got rich along the way. Libertarians, on the other hand, are motivated by the desire to fuck children.
Oh yea it's pretty lib. No surprise though, the CEO of this startup media outlet is the daughter of ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt
There's a term for that tactic, it's called hydraulic despotism.
Real Leto II/Immortan Joe hours going on in the minds of silicon valley colonizers.
Was almost certainly a self-given name. Most ancaps who are that serious get rid of their legal government names. It’d be one of their more based traditions if they didn’t always choose such cringy names. Lily Forester’s partner literally called himself John Galt
so this sort of shit fascinates me and i did a bit of googling
as far as i can tell from everything ive looked at this little building from the article and two others next to it are the only actual buildings theyve built at the place. even on their own website theres only a couple of photo ops of this building (featuring *cough* german ambassador) and a bunch of ridiculous renders of what they expect it to look like, and google satellite view supports that idea
the fancy buildings shown in the article seem to be from the resort thats just next to it that they bought, and i suspect that the gigantic fucking golf course is where the actual villages water has all been going
and if you look at the space available to the libertarian town, its tiny and right next to the village, of course theyre gonna try and annex the village itself
also found e-residencies that only allow 180 days physical access a year, im sure those will be used for totally legitimate purposes
edit: lol review on google maps from some canadian guy "What a scam. Wasted 100kUSD."
from their reddit (lol of course they have one):
In my opinion the biggest issue with prospera is the immigration restrictions. Absolutely abolish all immigration and let foreigners (Americans, Europeans and Asians) that have small, but valuable amounts of capital come and invest their time lives and money in the place.
Everyone (Peter Thiel and friends) always forget about the importance of the established middle class. Let the petit bourgeois come en masse and the working class and investors will follow.
Considering the minimum wage is what, US$1.25/h, this will potentially yield a LOT low-wage jobs. Want to hire a software developer at USD$100k but can't find a Honduran? Well, hire a non-Honduran software developer at USD$75k instead, but hire them a personal butler, nanny, chef, bartender, as well as one each of those for you, each at a salary of USD$2600/year, and you're covered to hire the foreigner.
Because 9 Honduran workers at minimum wage cost $23,400 a year, if your average additional foreign hire gets paid $100k it's like a 23% tax. Now if you were going to hire 5 Hondurans per foreign hire anyway now the 'tax' on getting an extra foreign worker falls to just $2600*4 = $10,000. Not insignificant, but it seems manageable.
rofl holy shit. i thought your quote was going to be how disgusting it would be to hire 5 necessary people at bare minimum wages so that you can treat some software dweeb like a fucking count, but no, it's about cost efficiency.
abolish all immigration and let foreigners (Americans, Europeans and Asians)
Weirdly specifying which continents foreigners can come from, just to exclude Africa.
controversial gene-therapy startup
They're doing Les Enfants Terribles to create the world's most powerful pedophile
I was thinking Bioshock IRL.
A libertarian city, where entrepreneurs can be themselves and experiment with untested gene therapies, free from the yoke of regulation?
We need to contain this plague of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and lock them inside the Metaverse for good.
Similarly, Zoe Quinn put a chip in her finger in order to,, feel closer to computers while coding I guess. It seems cool, but not cyborg-level yet
I think it was a magnet.
I did that, and it was super cool. Unfortunately I had to get it taken out so I could get an MRI :deeper-sadness:
The coolest part was whenever it was near a speaker, I could feel the music.
No idea, never had them. Because electrical current generates a magnetic field, they let you "feel" the electrical current by tugging on your fingertips as the magnetic fields interact.
Most magnetic fields you encounter would make the magnet vibrate at various intensities rather than just pulling on it, so the sensation was akin to being able to touch magnetic fields.
The youtuber Thought Emporium made him self temporarily lactose tolerant with an engineered virus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoczYXJeMY4
I believe they did it specifically for the purpose of making many of the patentable stuff that would make gene therapy require the parents to develop unpatentable. As in, all the base parts of it needed to do any sort of gene therapy would be unpatentable, but companies could still patent specific implementations of it.
I don't have anything to add except that corporate extraterritoriality is where things went seriously wrong in Shadowrun.
