Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise — but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.

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.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    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.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Very when it's coming from them, it's eerily close to Lenin's analysis though.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            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.

              • Awoo [she/her]
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                3 years ago

                Marxist horror movies and psychological thriller series would all just be about capitalism.

        • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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          3 years ago

          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.