No state project

[ShakeZula06]

Below is a response I made in the other now giant thread.
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except Dubai only got that way because of billions perhaps trillions in state subsidies from stolen oil money. I really don't think it's economically feasible to start from scratch unless you're the Saudi royal family.

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This is kind of a late response but oh well [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I don't see why this would be unfeasable without coercion. All you need is a movement like the Free State project. You get a few thousand (ok, maybe a few ten of thousand) of people, of which invariably will have some business owners who could move their business there, some venture capitalists that will be interested in investing in some business over there. Obviously some construction companies will be interested in going over there, we'd need a lot of stuff built.

The fact that the internet and overnight shipping is the norm now a days means where ever you are in the world you have access to tons of stuff.

Of course it would take some time and it wouldn't be easy, but I don't see why it wouldn't be feasable, at least a hell of a lot more feasable then America becoming AC in our lifetimes.

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Now of course there would be problems such as making sure whatever nation sold away their juridiction doesn't just go "lol, nvm give us our land back", but obviously precautions can be taken to defend against that.

In most western nations (the only exception was the US) slavery was ended nonviolently, usually consisting of buying the slaves from the slaveowners and setting them free. That seemed to work much better then having the slaves suggest to their owners that they let them go because it's morally wrong or produces less then a economy without slavery.

What are the objections to such a project? I would think start up investment would be the biggest detriment, but then again I think investors would be lining up for tax-free investments.

*I would prefer not to have to debate the merits of market anarchism or hear "no this won't work because market anarchism would be horrible/unstable/what have you.