[Ask the Gulch] Can objectivists initiate violence?
Posted by LWinn 4 years, 3 months ago to Ask the Gulch
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I wish we could create an experiment based on Objectivist principles in some place that's remote enough to have its own rules but not so remote as to prevent trade. I wish I thought that would come in the form of humans moving to a space station or moon colony just as Europeans came to the Americas. I don't see that happening. Traveling to space and living there is just so much harder than traveling to a new continent.
I would like to see some country experiment with a free trade zone. My fantasy one is Denmark and Greenland doing some experiment with the mission of providing opportunities for indigenous peoples. They would give a huge amount of autonomy to the region, kind of like how big companies sometimes create a spin-off to develop technologies without being bound to the established company's ways.
Another thought is a Seasted. Whatever the next new nation-state experiment is, it has to be far but not too far. I don't know if that exists on earth.
Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) are secure areas under U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) supervision that are generally considered outside CBP territory upon activation. Located in or near CBP ports of entry, they are the United States' version of what are known internationally as free-trade zones.
Is that what you mean?
It won't be me, but I'd like someone to start with a business incubator in some place with a favorable climate to free flow of people and capital. They tried to do it with Blueseed, but if failed. Chad Elwartowski failed. Someone interested would build on the lessons they learned.
I think the safe distance will be near enough to travel and trade but not so near that travel is a simple every-day affair. Space doesn't meet the criterion of near enough to travel. I hope it will soon.
Good. It's our business to make it so.