I'd imagine restricting immigration would solve 99% of these problems. If someone wants to leave, then let them - it may just be hard to get back. If you have a place where the net desire is to leave, then you have problems that will not be solved by merely holding the passports of unwilling citizens.
Re:The Quest for a Floating Utopia
by teh_infallible on Sunday April 25, 2021 @09:15PM
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I think similar issues would arise in space. I suspect living on a spaceship would be like being in prison
Very much so. Even with the best of intentions, the opportunity is going to be there and just way too easy to exploit.
Getting on a spaceship where it's an 8 month return journey from Mars, with alignments for transfer happening every 2 years, is going to be taking a hell of a risk with whoever control's the destination's intentions.
The first basic tenet is throwing up barriers or blocking departure. The US doesn't really worry about people leaving - way more people want to enter then leave.
Seasteading has a very implicit hazard here though: there's an in-built ability to make leaving difficult (same with the mega-yachts and the like - when you happen to very rarely be in your employees home countries, you've created a rather effective barrier to them being able to depart).