Hello! What follows is a work-in-progress script about the idea of Charter Cities, which the EA-adjacent youtube channel RationalAnimations plans to animate soon. Based on previous videos' performa…
It’s the polite form of seasteading, where you actually talk to the host country before setting up your haven for brothels and scams, instead of anchoring your flotilla of rafts just outside the EEZ and peppering the coast guard with gunfire when they approach.
With the caveat that while sea-steading in principle intended to leave the mainland alone, charter cities aim to enclose an existing parcel of land and set up a rival polity within the country and give it preferential access to resources over its immediately adjoining neighbours
I’m honestly not gonna say that in principle if your aim is to do 21st century industrialisation within a liberal capitalist system in a Global South country - with all that that entails - that it isn’t gonna work, but advertising it as an unalloyed good without any recognition of the intense ambiguity of such a project is the most recklessly hubristic thing imaginable
This is like Seasteading but for the less nautically inclined right? No mention of Fordlândia…
It’s the polite form of seasteading, where you actually talk to the host country before setting up your haven for brothels and scams, instead of anchoring your flotilla of rafts just outside the EEZ and peppering the coast guard with gunfire when they approach.
With the caveat that while sea-steading in principle intended to leave the mainland alone, charter cities aim to enclose an existing parcel of land and set up a rival polity within the country and give it preferential access to resources over its immediately adjoining neighbours
I’m honestly not gonna say that in principle if your aim is to do 21st century industrialisation within a liberal capitalist system in a Global South country - with all that that entails - that it isn’t gonna work, but advertising it as an unalloyed good without any recognition of the intense ambiguity of such a project is the most recklessly hubristic thing imaginable
extremely like it, esp with Patri Friedman involved