Have you seen this report about a "libertarian utopia"?
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-30/for-libertarian-utopia-float-away-on-startup-nation.html
It's the equivalent of the "Galt's Gulch" from Ayn Rand's novel Atlas Shrugged. The so-called "creators/innovators" want to be free of government interference and taxes. They also want to be rich, so they're making futuristic plans for themselves, and the rest of us can go to hell for all they care.
Taken to its logical conclusion, this concept would deprive nation states of their tax bases and result in their economic collapse.
Welcome to the market state.
Although disruptive technologies make certain people filthy rich, they are engines of sociocide and widespread economic destruction. In this regard, they are more destructive than so-called terrorists.
If these geniuses want to go off and live by themselves, I have no objection. But if they want to sell their goods and services to the rest of us, then they will have to abide by our rules ... and that includes paying taxes.
By the way, at least one of the characters in Atlas Shrugged, Ragnar Danneskjöld the pirate, probably would fit the modern US definition of "terrorist". One cannot implement Ms. Rand's vision of universal selfishness without subjecting the population to the equivalent of terrorism.
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