0 sats \ 1 reply \ @erict875 18 Feb \ parent \ on: What if we could redesign society from scratch? The promise of charter cities econ
I am fascinated by the concepts of charter cities and seasteading.
I actually firmly believe that the former, if implemented correctly, could help solve the migrant crisis and provide an economic boost to empoverished regions in Africa.
The more of them we have around the world the better. A country revoking an agreement would make the other charter cities more valuable.
100% of charter cities are doomed within a decade for reasons I've posted above.
A charter city becoming "more valuable" does not add to it's defense against the host state. If anything, the charter city becoming more valuable makes it MORE ATTRACTIVE to be plundered by the host state.
Think about it this way: if you were a commie tin-pot dictator and your formal political rival gave a bunch of undesirables (in your opinion) some land to make a community out of, but then suddenly those undesirables became really rich, what would you do?
You'd pillage them as much as you possibly could. That's exactly what you'd do.
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