Entrepreneurs Building Autonomous Start-Up Cities To Create Zones of Liberty

[Sombro]

"Bill Gates took a huge slice of pie, but he didn’t take it from me. By starting Microsoft, he baked millions of new pies. He made the rest of the world richer, too. Entrepreneurs create things.

"Over the past few decades, the difference in wealth between the rich and poor has grown. This makes people uncomfortable. But why is it a problem if the poor didn’t get poorer?"

- John Stossel

http://reason.com/archives/2014/01/08/equality-versus-liberty

 

[Handsome Creepy Eel]

These libertarian utopias are impossible for the same reason that matriarchal societies are impossible: they either implode as a result of too many externalities, become overrun by other kinds of societies that were more successful in the long run, or make the transition into a more sustainable society by themselves.

 

[Yeti]

I read once about particularly shitty countries warming up to the idea of ceding part of their sovereignty to private institutions, like companies or entrepreneurs, which would then run that part of the country and not the government.

The idea being that some countries are just SO FUCKED UP that only radical ideas can save them.

One such radical idea is letting rich white dudes take control and rape your resources. If it creates a safer, stable country... isn't it worth a shot?

We have to accept the reality that some places are beyond help, at least according to traditional ideas. Severely corrupt and dangerous places mean that people - young children and women - are dying and starving.

I say let the West give it a shot.