What if we made human colonies on icebergs?

https://transhumanaxiology.substack.com/p/ice-the-penultimate-frontier

by sleepingreset • 2 years ago

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transhumanaxiology.substack.com

houses on your artificial island may be much cheaper than in legacy nations as you can reduce taxes and red tape that add a lot to costs, you can build higher, etc. You can also entice people with lower taxes and better demographics

One convenient thing about a city on an iceberg is how easy it will be to dispose of less-desirable, erm, "demographics". And of course, all that keeps "legacy nations" from being great places is "taxes and red tape". Then again, if that's true, why then not simply shut down major parts of the government, abandon taxes and "cancel" those pesky red tape and laws like building codes? That should do the trick.

The best thing about trying this on land (get out your popcorn) is that it will keep this guy from pumping several cubic kilometers of shredded plastic into the environment that they envision to use for ice re-enforcement and landscaping.

over a size of a few thousand square kilometers an ice-island can be economically self-sustaining, especially if human capital is carefully chosen

Then again a micro nation atop an iceberg with no taxes and "no laws" has a certain chance of cracking, melting and / or cataclysmically turning over b/c of shifting mass centers, so... for a "transhuman" experiment populated with "carefully chosen human capital" (crypto bors, I guess?) that may turn out to be its true benefit for the advancement of mankind.

*Edit*

Philanthropists like Elon Musk

Musk would make a great asset to your carefully curated human capital society, being the philanthropist and fascist wacko that he is

sleepingreset• 2 years ago

DemocracyFTW22• 2 years ago

the author of the linked article is an inhumane idiot is what I'm saying

What if we made human colonies on icebergs?

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