A Floating Galt's Gulch?


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10 Billion to create! Paging Midas Mulligan [who legally changed his name to make a point lol]!

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The Freedom Ship, concept pictured, is a mile long, 25 storeys high and features schools, hospitals, businesses, parks, promenades, an art gallery, a shopping centre, casino and airport on the roof

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What would be it's country of registration?

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In the picture, the people on board this alleged ship look a little stiff to me.

Must be Objectivists. :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

Indeed and up to your/my high standards of the art of satire...

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10 Billion to create! Paging Midas Mulligan [who legally changed his name to make a point lol]!

article-2514936-19B1AD7300000578-846_964

The Freedom Ship, concept pictured, is a mile long, 25 storeys high and features schools, hospitals, businesses, parks, promenades, an art gallery, a shopping centre, casino and airport on the roof

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Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2514936/The-incredible-mile-long-floating-CITY--complete-schools-hospital-parks-airport-50-000-residents.html#ixzz2m3CU3Hw3

What would be it's country of registration?

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An article said the company is based in Florida... but I doubt that it would be built here because of government restrictions.

For a "Galt's Gulch", it's not exactly hidden, and it wouldn't provide much protection because of it's constant dependence on external support. How long would that Utopian society last if food deliveries stopped? And who'd want to live that close to an airport?

All of that ostentatious uber rich opulance would literally make it a sitting duck for terrorists who would love to take a swipe at a symbol of the "corporate greed" they despise.

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Ah, so Greg disapproves.

Refreshing since he is so secretive on this public forum about his financial approach to the state.

Hydroponic farming should amply supply the needs of that community. Deep sea fishing would assist in that endeavor.

No one postulated a hidden gulch. Protection would be relatively easy, you get within 1,000 yards, you will be warned and then vaporized by the security drones.

Who would want to live close to an airport...really? That is an objecttion?

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Ah, so Greg disapproves.

Refreshing since he is so secretive on this public forum about his financial approach to the state.

Hydroponic farming should amply supply the needs of that community. Deep sea fishing would assist in that endeavor.

No one postulated a hidden gulch. Protection would be relatively easy, you get within 1,000 yards, you will be warned and then vaporized by the security drones.

Who would want to live close to an airport...really? That is an objecttion?

A...

Yes it is... but just a personal one. Let alone an airport, I won't even live in a city. The behavior of large groups of molecules can be predicted and controlled, but it is impossible to predict the behavior of one molecule. The farther away one is from cities, the more freedom of independent autonomous action one can enjoy.

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Yes it is... but just a personal one. Let alone an airport, I won't even live in a city. The behavior of large groups of molecules can be predicted and controlled, but it is impossible to predict the behavior of one molecule. The farther away one is from cities, the more freedom of independent autonomous action one can enjoy.

Conversation with Greg is robotic.

You are correct Greg, we recognize that you have expressed your choice as a personal one. And we re-recognize your choice every annoying time you re-re-emphasize your same point over and over and over again.

Is there any way I can give you carte blanche on you not feeling the need to repeat and restate your basic false memes every two (2) posts?

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Yes it is... but just a personal one. Let alone an airport, I won't even live in a city. The behavior of large groups of molecules can be predicted and controlled, but it is impossible to predict the behavior of one molecule. The farther away one is from cities, the more freedom of independent autonomous action one can enjoy.

Conversation with Greg is robotic.

You are correct Greg, we recognize that you have expressed your choice as a personal one. And we re-recognize your choice every annoying time you re-re-emphasize your same point over and over and over again.

Is there any way I can give you carte blanche on you not feeling the need to repeat and restate your basic false memes every two (2) posts?

A...

You had stated your own personal preferences for city living on a ship, and then questioned my not wanting to live near an airport. So I stated my preference for rural living away from urban mobs, as well as offering a reason why.

Greg

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Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

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Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

Darrell

Have you ever wondered which we have no floating "Galt's Gulch"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

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Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

Darrell

Have you ever wondered which we have no floating "Galt's Gulch"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

Darrell

Have you ever wondered which we have no floating "Galt's Gulch"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

My guess is that the original true believers and accolytes just have no skills in getting along with each other in a Galt's Gulch type community.

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Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

Darrell

Have you ever wondered which we have no floating "Galt's Gulch"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

Somewhere in my archives I have the original Constitution of "Oceania," a floating libertarian city. It was to be anchored in a particular location but could be expanded by attaching additional floating platforms. The idea was to create a floating "land mass" on which houses, buildings and other structures could be constructed. The area would expand as the population grew and new residents paid for additional floating platforms to be added.

Darrell

Have you ever wondered which we have no floating "Galt's Gulch"?

Ba'al Chatzaf

My guess is that the original true believers and accolytes just have no skills in getting along with each other in a Galt's Gulch type community.

A...

Because of real world human nature, Galt's Gulch would never work as a collective. However it does work on an individual level.

Greg

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Because of real world human nature, Galt's Gulch would never work as a collective. However it does work on an individual level.

Greg

Galt's Kayak.?

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Because of real world human nature, Galt's Gulch would never work as a collective. However it does work on an individual level.

Greg

Galt's Kayak.?

Land works much better than ocean...

On a practical real world level, Galt's Gulch does exist as independent sovereign individual Capitalists with shared ethical values doing business with each other in a similar manner to what Ayn Rand had described so well.

Greg

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There better be a buffet going 24/7.

Must be my Vegas lifestyle.

It certainly will be. Cruise ships are floating non stop buffets.

Greg

You know what's funny, on the cruises I've been on, I've actually eaten LESS than I normally would. Something especially turned me off while watching my wife eat plate after plate...

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There better be a buffet going 24/7.

Must be my Vegas lifestyle.

It certainly will be. Cruise ships are floating non stop buffets.

Greg

You know what's funny, on the cruises I've been on, I've actually eaten LESS than I normally would. Something especially turned me off while watching my wife eat plate after plate...

Sometimes when choosing a mate, compatible eating habits can get overlooked.

Greg

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