
“The 19th century challenge to ‘Go West, young man’ retains a powerful appeal. But for the current target audience – the free-wheeling capitalist dotcom millionaire in Silicon Valley – going west means getting wet. Not an issue, according to a new design report investigating the feasibility of ‘seasteads’, communities of like-minded, self-governing individuals established on the high seas, free from what its proponents see as the restrictions of nations, welfare systems and punitive taxes. The seasteading movement has emerged as a political movement – with nods to climate change and land shortages – to create new water-borne city states.”
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