It is an idea at once audacious and simplistic, a seeming impossibility that is now technologically within reach: cities floating in international waters — independent, self-sustaining nation states at sea.
Long the stuff of science fiction, so-called “seasteading” has in recent years matured from pure fantasy into something approaching reality, and there are now companies, academics, architects and even a government working together on a prototype by 2020.
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https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/business/dealbook/seasteading-floating-cities.html
Sounds like a cool idea, right? I'd live there if I could.
But these new "nation states" (actually more like city states) will be built by and for the rich. They certainly won't be used to house the homeless.
They will isolate the rich from the rest of us; serving as tax-free havens for the parasitic wealthy class who really doesn't give a damn if the rest of us live or die.
And they certainly will NOT be "self-sustaining". Their existence is only made possible by the voracious business practices of the monsters who can afford to live there because they prey upon the rest of us. If you need something to compare them to, think of the space station in the movie Elysium, because that's more or less what these bastards have in mind.
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