Comments on: Seasteading startup plans to treat micronations as a viable business http://futurismic.com/2009/01/29/seasteading-startup-plans-to-treat-micronations-as-a-viable-business/ Presenting the fact and fiction of tomorrow since 2001 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:03:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: HOPKINS27Marjorie http://futurismic.com/2009/01/29/seasteading-startup-plans-to-treat-micronations-as-a-viable-business/comment-page-1/#comment-215256 HOPKINS27Marjorie Thu, 28 Oct 2010 09:23:11 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=5809#comment-215256 Don't have enough money to buy a car? Don't worry, just because this is achievable to take the <a href="http://bestfinance-blog.com" rel="nofollow">loans</a> to solve such kind of problems. Therefore get a student loan to buy everything you require. Don’t have enough money to buy a car? Don’t worry, just because this is achievable to take the loans to solve such kind of problems. Therefore get a student loan to buy everything you require.

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]]> By: ShaunCG http://futurismic.com/2009/01/29/seasteading-startup-plans-to-treat-micronations-as-a-viable-business/comment-page-1/#comment-18150 ShaunCG Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:22:38 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=5809#comment-18150 *largest *largest

]]> By: ShaunCG http://futurismic.com/2009/01/29/seasteading-startup-plans-to-treat-micronations-as-a-viable-business/comment-page-1/#comment-18149 ShaunCG Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:20:08 +0000 http://futurismic.com/?p=5809#comment-18149 Another possible factor to bear in mind is that, thanks to the global recession and many Western governments finding themselves desperate for cash, there's a lot less tolerance for offshore tax havens (which I assume is at least a part of this scheme, given that funding for these habitats would have to come from somewhere). They're receiving a lot of very close attention right now as governments scrabble to reclaim tax revenue, and there are some of the large fraud and tax evasion investigations in history currently underway. Also, oh god, the man's the grandson of Milton bloody Friedman... Still, in purely engineering terms it's an interesting concept, even if I find the libertarian political ideas underpinning it a little, ah, blue sky. Another possible factor to bear in mind is that, thanks to the global recession and many Western governments finding themselves desperate for cash, there’s a lot less tolerance for offshore tax havens (which I assume is at least a part of this scheme, given that funding for these habitats would have to come from somewhere). They’re receiving a lot of very close attention right now as governments scrabble to reclaim tax revenue, and there are some of the large fraud and tax evasion investigations in history currently underway.

Also, oh god, the man’s the grandson of Milton bloody Friedman…

Still, in purely engineering terms it’s an interesting concept, even if I find the libertarian political ideas underpinning it a little, ah, blue sky.

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