The motion for company metropolis states can’t consider its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the intense notion that rich, tax-averse individuals ought to up and begin their very own high-tech fiefdoms, whether or not new international locations on synthetic islands in worldwide waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” similar to Próspera, a glorified gated group mixed with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
But regardless of backing from the heavy-hitter enterprise capitalists Peter Thiel and Marc Andreessen, their excessive libertarian desires stored bogging down: it seems most self-respecting wealthy individuals don’t truly need to stay on floating oil rigs, even when it means decrease taxes, and whereas Próspera could be good for a vacation and a few physique “upgrades”, its extra-national standing is at the moment being challenged in court.
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