More efforts from tech bros to build Rapture.
Interesting quotes:
it had backing from tech heavyweights such as billionaire Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong, AngelList co-founder Naval Ravikant, and venture capitalist** Fred Wilson**, a Coinbase board member who sold his shares in the company for $1.8 billion after it went public in 2021.
“Bitcoin, if it wins, completely changes the world, because it changes the ability of centralized states to do what they’ve been doing,” Srinivisan said in a presentation delivered to a Bitcoin conference in Amsterdam in October.
The Bitcoin-based Network State will be based on “internet values” such as “open source” and “peer-to-peer,” Srinivasan has written.
An utopia run on Bitcoin? What could possibly go wrong?
I wish them luck. It’s good for people to try new things. I won’t be moving there though.
I hope they get eaten by bears.
https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project
This is the classic example.
Below one is also super fun: https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/06/30/colorado-springs-libertarian-experiment-america-215313/
Take the streetlights. Turning them off had saved the city about $1.25 million. What had not made the national news stories was what had happened while those lights were off. Copper thieves, emboldened by the opportunity to work without fear of electrocution, had worked overtime scavenging wire. Some, the City Council learned, had even dressed up as utility workers and pried open the boxes at the base of streetlights in broad daylight. Keeping the lights off might have saved some money in the short term, but the cost to fix what had been stolen ran to some $5 million.
FREEDOM TO STEAL!!!
I bet Wish Version Lex Luthor in the thumbnail photo is extra crunchy. Bears like that because it helps clean their teeth.
‘Tech Billionaires give all wealth away to end world hunger.’ ‘Tech Billionaires lobby for wealth tax with national governments.’ ‘Tech Billionaires realize they are normal people like anyone else, not super smart world-saving geniuses, and finally shut the fuck up.’
Now these would be news.
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Quick! Call the press!
this comment made me feel the draw of dillusional thought, it felt good to read those fake headlines and I didn’t want it to stop
No society should accept billionaires. There are so many other people who are in dire need. It makes zero difference if they have a billion or a 100 million.
We can only hope that, like the citizens of Rapture, the rich tech-bros go insane from their own fumes and start eating each other.
While also doing body horror.
didn’t they try this in el salvador and it flopped?
I feel like I already watched this Documentary. It did not end well.
Cancer on society decides to form a tumour.
Libertarians are just conservatives who are ok with weed and gay people
Hey now that’s not all they are. A concerning number of them also don’t like statutory rape laws
Now that’s a true marketplace! (Feels weird to even joke about it)
The only libertarian I personally know is anti-LGBT+, just not as rabidly outspoken about it as a “regular” conservative. He’s the sort who’d be happy with gay people being murdered on the streets as long as he doesn’t have to do it himself
That is my observation as well. When it really comes to personal liberty they don’t really care. Remember that libertarian tech bro like Peter Thiel (who is gay btw) somehow thought the world is “too woke” and continues to fund conservative politicians taking away gay rights.
Of course “libertarian” here is code for “oligarchy”, because they know modern libertarians in the US are aggressively apathetic, will let them get away with anything, and thus form a perfect base to appeal to and dominate.
I give them three months before the new society collapses due to arguments over age of consent.
Libertarians (n., plural) - Sooo…. Conservatives.
Perhaps they can take all the asshole Republicans (leaving the reasonable ones…I know, not many left) with them and we can be left with a society that doesn’t suck and is instead filled with leadership that may have opposing viewpoints, but are willing to compromise — like, you know, mature, scientific, educated adults would.
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Ya know what? I hope they do it. That many rich assholes with more ambition than brains in one place? It’ll burn from the inside.
Target rich environment
Did you mean “target-rich environment” or “target: rich environment”?
yes
Wait, they want to put all the assholes in one place? We should let them, it’ll make it easier later.
But part of it is decentralized! Can’t we just slap a blockchain on anything and declare the whole thing immune to coercion? /s
My favorite Libertarian society experiment. I mean, it’s the only one that I’m aware of, but that it ended about as well as you’d expect is just fantastic.
The bear one. Yes the classic!
