{"id":14941,"date":"2011-08-16T16:56:09","date_gmt":"2011-08-16T23:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=14941"},"modified":"2011-08-16T17:08:37","modified_gmt":"2011-08-17T00:08:37","slug":"seasteading-who-is-john-galt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/14941\/seasteading-who-is-john-galt\/","title":{"rendered":"Seasteading:  Galt&#8217;s Gulch for a new century?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Galt&#8217;s Gulch is going to exist in this century, might it be called Seasteading?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine.<\/p>\n<p>Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to build\u00a0sovereign\u00a0nations on oil rig-like platforms to occupy waters beyond the reach of law-of-the-sea treaties. The idea is for these countries to start from scratch&#8211;free from the laws, regulations, and moral codes of any existing place. Details says the experiment would be &#8220;a kind of floating petri dish for implementing policies that libertarians, stymied by indifference at the voting booths, have been unable to advance: no welfare, looser building codes, no minimum wage, and few restrictions on weapons.&#8221; &#8211; <a title=\"Silicon Valley billionaire funding creation of artificial libertarian islands\" href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/blogs\/lookout\/silicon-valley-billionaire-funding-creation-artificial-libertarian-islands-140840896.html\" target=\"_blank\">Yahoo.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A floating haven for Libertarians.\u00a0 It sounds like freedom.\u00a0 I wonder where they could find real estate expertise for such a venture?<\/p>\n<p>Galt&#8217;s Gulch had one big advantage over <a title=\"Seasteading\" href=\"http:\/\/seasteading.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Seasteading<\/a>, it was beyond detection of government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Galt&#8217;s Gulch is going to exist in this century, might it be called Seasteading? Peter Thiel has given $1.25 million to an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of the billionaire in Details magazine. Thiel has been a big backer of the Seasteading Institute, which seeks to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[24,212,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-egoism-in-action","category-flourishing","category-real-estate","no-featured-image"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":882,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/882\/real-estate-in-deadwood-how-fremont-street-in-las-vegas-became-a-ghost-town\/","url_meta":{"origin":14941,"position":0},"title":"Real estate in Deadwood: How Fremont Street in Las Vegas became a ghost town . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 11, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"My mother gives us money for Christmas every year. 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