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stevenleser

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32. A city doesnt work without the 99% and that is why this cannot succeed.

Reply to cali (Original post)

Tue May 15, 2012, 03:11 PM

May 2012

Who will cook and serve meals, clean living and working spaces, cart away garbage, launder and dry clean clothes, landscape any green areas, staff the leisure centers, install/repair electronics and other items, etc.

And when that is figured out, where will 'those people' live, and who will pay them and what fun is offered to them and their families?

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Paypal co-founder to build a city on the sea [View all] cali May 2012 OP

Eugenics. ananda May 2012 #1

Sign me up. I'll run the city's shotgun store. onehandle May 2012 #2

..... cali May 2012 #9

If one has to "apply to be considered for a spot on Blueseed" arcane1 May 2012 #3

will John Galt be there? Enrique May 2012 #4

That's exactly what I immediately thought too! Sounds way too much like Atlas Shrugged nt riderinthestorm May 2012 #18

Sounds like the Cayman Islands, but way downscale. Ah, barge living . . . now, that's the life. leveymg May 2012 #5

Is that a glenn beck book yesphan May 2012 #13

The 1% flees to their refuge from the 99% Speck Tater May 2012 #6

a libertarian dream. katsy May 2012 #7

I would be tempted to take a really good size ship to it, snooper2 May 2012 #8

If you tow them to the arctic the current will eventually carry them back. Tow them to the middle of Erose999 May 2012 #15

it sounds like some kind of regulation and tax dodge cali May 2012 #10

Its already been tried... Erose999 May 2012 #11

Is the Exxon Valdez out there running amok with smokers? Tommy_Carcetti May 2012 #22

Gee, a bunch of young, wealthy entrepreneurs in a floating city with no laws? hughee99 May 2012 #12

Sounds more like BlueSky than BlueSeed. MineralMan May 2012 #14

And where will the 99% live? JustABozoOnThisBus May 2012 #16

Similar to the corporate domes in "He, She, and It" suffragette May 2012 #20

Can't wait for one of these to settle all scores malaise May 2012 #17

Anything to escape responsibility to the society from which they benefit suffragette May 2012 #19

How long before the pirates sink that boat? Zalatix May 2012 #21

Depends on how many pirates they can fit on it. Erose999 May 2012 #24

If press releases were construction equipment Retrograde May 2012 #23

These are not my likeminded people. rug May 2012 #25

Survival strategy as old as the crannog. Robb May 2012 #26

Can they be towed to Somalia? thelordofhell May 2012 #27

May the tsunami quickly find them. hifiguy May 2012 #28

Make them sign something indicating that if they start to sink, no one should come elp them. JoePhilly May 2012 #29

Rough seas? LiberalFighter May 2012 #30

He's going to anchor it twelve miles off Half Moon Bay? KamaAina May 2012 #31

A city doesnt work without the 99% and that is why this cannot succeed. stevenleser May 2012 #32

They keep inventing this concept zipplewrath May 2012 #33

I think Forbes Kiddoo's vision and economy of scale was where it was at Brother Buzz May 2012 #34