The movement for corporate city states cannot believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
Yet despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down : it turns out most self-respecting rich people don’t actually want to live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while Próspera might be nice for a holiday and some body “upgrades”, its extra-national status is currently being challenged in court.
Now, all of a sudden, this once-fringe network of corporate secessionists finds itself knocking on open doors at the dead center of global power.
And regardless of whether or not they succeed, humanity will carry on. I’m not saying this as a means to be complacent and to just let it happen, more that whatever damage they do will be nothing in comparison to the span of decades and centuries. And if we all go back to the stone age or make it out and go head first into the next age, future historians will look back on this time period as either the time the rich tech companies took over the world or another group of dipshits tried to take over the world again. And I don’t know about you but I’d rather have this shit be a single page in the history books. And if history has taught us anything, they will fail eventually. Whether it’s next Tuesday or in 40 years, they always fail in the end. I just hope it’s sooner rather than later so we don’t make thousands of innocent people suffer or die just so cowards can feel good about themselves.
I just hope it’s sooner rather than later so we don’t make thousands of innocent people suffer or die just so cowards can feel good about themselves.
Yeah I’m pretty sure this is what people are worried about. Humanity will be fine eventually, the humans presently alive have a lot to lose.
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