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Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by tim333 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @04:00AM (#21870818)
> This is bleak, bleak stuff.

There have been a number of low tax, rule of law city states like Hong Kong and Singapore that did rather well and provided a refuge for many Chinese when China was going a bit nuts under Mao and the like. It's not all bleak.

Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by pasabagi on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:04AM (#21870995)
I don't know if Singapore counts - it's a fascist dictatorship.
Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by tim333 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @06:33AM (#21871324)
Didn't seem very fascist when I was there. The Economist Intelligence Unit has it as a 'flawed democracy', the same category as the US. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democracy_Index)
Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by SerLava on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @09:39AM (#21872313)
The Democracy Index rankings are non-transparent measures by a less than objective organization that places significant weight on a country's openness to multinational corporations.

Singapore specifically is an example people use to illustrate the inherent flaws of the Democracy Index rating system. This is a country with low press freedom, one ruling party that sues the opposition into bankruptcy for "defamation" to prevent any loss of power, and oh, they execute people for carrying drugs.

Re:The Hottest New Thing in Seasteading Is Land by nwah1 on Tuesday December 24, 2019 @05:07AM (#21871003)
The extent to which their political and economic system is influenced by fascism may be up for debate, but given that they've not conducted any genocide or imperialism, the charge doesn't hold the gravity that you intend.