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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by aww_dang on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @01:20AM (#21870272)
One of the stated goals of the project is to create employment in undeveloped regions. The plight of the unemployed in the 3rd world has never been cake and candy. Unemployed people struggle even in developed countries.

Another interesting contrast to your hypothetical is that in the US people are free to volunteer for paid clinical trials. Yet somehow you imagine the proposed alternative to be entirely malicious...

https://clinicalcenter.nih.gov/recruit/volunteers.html

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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by meheleventyone on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:03AM (#21870622)
Leaving aside the issues with exploitation inherent in using power imbalance to experiment on the poor the OP is talking about a situation where you are “voluntold” and have not volunteered.
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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by aww_dang on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @03:48AM (#21870773)
As opposed to the power differential between a federally funded, government operated research facility and poor US citizens? Would be nice if the OP could cite where residents of the special economic zone will be coerced.
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