Don’t worry, the artificial libertarian islands will have better names than that. Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal and early Facebook investor, has given $1,25 million to an initiative to build libertarian island states in international waters. Because that’s what you do when you’re a 43-year-old gay libertarian with money to kill, I guess.
Working with former Google engineer Patri Friedman, Thiel has started putting together architectural plans for a prototype diesel-powered, 12,000-ton island structure with room for 270 residents, which could be linked with more structures as the initiative expands.
From an interview with Details:
Friedman hopes to launch a flotilla of offices off the San Francisco coast next year; full-time settlement, he predicts, will follow in about seven years; and full diplomatic recognition by the United Nations, well, that’ll take some lawyers and time.
“The ultimate goal,” Friedman says, “is to open a frontier for experimenting with new ideas for government.”
So, you know. If the early Facebook investors didn’t seem like Bond villains to you before.
[Source: Details]
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