Libertarian Utopia Meets Reality

by Patrick Appel

Timothy B Lee tackles seasteading, "a program for political reform based on a proliferation of self-governing ocean colonies":

If all you care about is avoiding the long arm of the law, that'sactually pretty easy to do. Buy a cabin in the woods in Wyoming and thegovernment will pretty much leave you alone. Pick a job that allows youto deal in cash and you can probably get away without filing a taxreturn. In reality, hardly anyone does this. To the contrary, peoplehave been...