Seasteading Institute city design (Anthony Ling)
Pay Pal founder and early Facebook investor Peter Thiel gave the $ 1.25 million for an initiative to create floating libertarian countries in international waters, according to a profile of billionaire in the journal data.
hiel has been a major sponsor of the Institute Seasteading, sovereign nations seeking to build oil platforms in the platform type to keep the waters beyond the reach of the law of the sea untreated. The idea is that these countries from scratch - without the laws, regulations and moral standards existing anywhere. Details said the experience would be "a kind of petri dish floating on the implementation of policies that libertarians, frustrated by the indifference of the voting booth, they were unable to move forward: no social protection, building code restrictions more flexible, a minimum wage, and few weapons. "
"Many people think it is not possible," said Thiel at a conference of the Institute Seasteading in 2009, according to the details. (The first grant was in 2008 for $ 500,000.) "It's a good thing. Do not worry about these people really well, because I do not think it is possible that we take very seriously. And not really intend to stop until it's too late. "
Patri Friedman Institute Seasteading said the group plans to launch an office park outside San Francisco coast next year, with the first full-time colonies after seven years later.
Thiel made headlines earlier this year to some of its $ 1.5 billion fortune in an effort to encourage employers to go to college.
Another Silicon Valley, the Titan, the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced in June that he would finance "The Long Now". The watch is designed to keep ticking for 10,000 years, and built in the West Texas mountains.
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