Keith Olberman, Thom Hartmann, and The Young Turks on Seasteading

[bananas]

These are great - Olbermann does a Dr. Strangelove impersonation when awarding "worst person of the week" award to Peter Thiel.

Countdown with Keith Olbermann 08-17-2011 5 - Dr. Strangelove, and the Worst Persons in the World
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x610269

Thom Hartmann: Floating Libertarian Utopia - hiring hookers or take turns?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x610305

Young Turks: Libertarian Islands Created By PayPal Founder?
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x610208

:rofl:

[MindPilot]

1. Oh, yeah, you are all self-sufficient and stuff, until the typhoon

and you need the socialist US Navy to haul your ass out of the drink. And I hope they don't need to use any of those socialist communication satellites. I wonder if Thiel is aware that the very thing that made him rich, the Internet, started as a socialist DoD project, paid for by (gasp!) TAX DOLLARS!!!11111!

[eleny]

2. I'm surprised there hasn't been a fiction movie made about all this

After all, the wealthy still have to hire staff. And there's lots of fodder for great story telling.

Thanks for the three links. I'm going to look now. I missed some KO shows since we were camping recently. :hi:

[Salviati]

3. There has been a game about it...

Or rather it's .

[bananas]

4. And Olberman mentioned "Waterworld"

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114898/

[Ichingcarpenter]

5. The video game Bioshock comes to mind a underwater city

of Rapture. That was envisioned by the Objectivist business magnate Andrew Ryan, who wanted to create a laissez-faire state to escape increasingly oppressive political, economic, and religious authority on land. The city was secretly built in 1946 on a mid-Atlantic seabed, utilizing submarine volcanoes to provide geothermal power.

Scientific progress flourished in Rapture, leading to rapid developments in engineering and biotechnology thanks in part to the brilliant scientists that Ryan brought to the city.

As time passed, the gap between rich and poor increased. Frank Fontaine established charity organizations to support the underclass. His motives were far from altruistic; his ultimate goal was to use his charity organizations to manipulate the underclass. He also established a smuggling operation to supply citizens with forbidden items from the surface, such as religious material. These, along with his control of the plasmid drug industry, made him immensely powerful. The city became a dystopian nightmare.


It is very Ayne Rand