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Special economic zones like the UAE?

Unless they're paid in scrip, which you know they would be

Holy Christ.

Do you understand that if these types of fiefdoms are built, they will be able to attract people with misleading claims or by dangling short-term economic relief in front of desperate people who they can then ruthlessly victimize?

Maybe you do, and you just think "ah fuck em"

Which is in character for the types of people who want to start a fiefdom in the ocean.

I'm gonna have to recommend you pick up BioShock, for real. It's on sale for 5 dollars.

The Democracy Index rankings are non-transparent measures by a less than objective organization that places significant weight on a country's openness to multinational corporations.

Singapore specifically is an example people use to illustrate the inherent flaws of the Democracy Index rating system. This is a country with low press freedom, one ruling party that sues the opposition into bankruptcy for "defamation" to prevent any loss of power, and oh, they execute people for carrying drugs.

The unaccountable billionaire rulers of the oceanic fief who went to incredible expense for the sole purpose of escaping democratic accountability.

This is kind of the worst part- that they lack the historical literacy to recognize that they wouldn't even be the first. And they'll just dive headlong into it.

I promise I will do that for you if you tell me you are having trouble differentiating between an organization physically capturing you and locking you in a box, versus an organization deciding which brand of mayonnaise they will bring to your table.

OK now Sea Citizen, you haven't been hitting your production targets... This is the third month you've failed to qualify for the monthly "bonus" scrip. After rent and commissary, I'm afraid that puts you in the red. And I don't have to tell you what that means.

There aren't any open positions higher up, and you aren't exactly a top performer. The only way I see you digging out of this is signing up for the Human Initiative Project. A couple injections a week, plus your regular salary, and you'll have more than enough scrip.

Don't believe the rumors, you'll be just fine.

>We all choose to spend time here anyway, because he does a good job responding to our needs.

>A lot of things work this way, in fact. When you go to a restaurant, you don't get to vote on the menu. You order what's there.

The problem isn't that someone else might choose something for you. That's not what anyone is worried about here. An incredibly silly comparison.

The environment they are trying to set up makes them unaccountable and undemocratic, capable of entrapping and exploiting people to no end. The potential actual consequences are infinitely greater than condiment selection.

Isn't this the plot of BioShock?

If this sounds like a dorky joke post, it's not.

Isn't this literally motivated by the same neo-fuedal oligarchical narcissism that made the bad guy in BioShock build essentially the same thing as this? Tell me one of these "seasteads" won't get hit by some speedboat pirates and decide OK, we're gonna arm up and hey why not build down? And you know what? No one's gonna say we can't do human experiments on our residents, so why not? As long as they sign their names to it.

Just stay in Palo Alto or whatever, and pay your god damned taxes. This is bleak, bleak stuff.

“Do I want to create the first venture-backed city-state? Hell yeah”

>But there's a large segment of homeless people who choose to be homeless or

So people sitting in $900,000 homes are saying you know what? I'm gonna live in a tent under a bridge.

Is that what they are doing

That is a very, very broad piece of data that could just as easily be found with a simple survey or by buying the flat statistics from ISPs.

Yeah Morales was just about to give the profits from their lithium supplies to social programs etc. and suddenly he's sleeping outside.

Isn't that a causal chain...?

I mean, if you hired them to trim specific trees for other people... every day... for years...

For adult cats, you might want to also support their weight instead of holding them up just by the scruff. It definitely works though.

The people here aren't talking about finding a meme that contains words in their search.

Reddit is simply the largest site that disincentivises content-for-contents sake. When you find someone asking a complex question, the person answering it does it because they have a real answer- not because they can make some money by googling the answer and rewording it. That's what the rest of Google's content often devolves to. For certain topics.

If your company can't replace a doorknob in a decade, destroy that company. It has no value.

Yeah, it seems like the VP's choices were A) risk IT security or B) guarantee total personal career failure

Having the resources to install a CRM for someone this year is a fundamental part of any properly equipped IT department.

Can you call your IT security strong if you are dangling irresistible incentives to break the security?

>Useful inventions don't need advertising to spread.

This is a common superstition, like faeries or psychic powers.

>Are we really happier than hunters and gatherers

Are you talking about the people who had like a 40% murder rate? The people with piles of dead babies buried out back.

The modern world is depressing and frought with new problems, but most of them are the inevitable product of high population density. Many of our inventions are built to deal with higher population density. The choices are A) create technology with some downsides, or B) genocide

I really don't think I can convince someone that advertising is sometimes necessary when they'd rather smear blood on their forehead and beat a deer to death with a rock.

No. I'm specifically saying that "numerologists believe in numerology" is equivalent to "climate scientists believe climate exists"

No, the equivalent to your example would be "97% of climate scientists believe that climate exists"

It's also not an appeal to authority fallacy to say that the only people who bothered to check something have a certain opinion.

How do you know what's in the box? Well I looked in it and you still haven't.

If your position here is that invention itself has created negative value overall, we really can't have any conversation about the world.

I mean,

Wow that explanation of luxury car ads kinda blew my mind there. I'm going to be looking for that pattern everywhere now.

Imagine that almost everything made by a new company never existed. That would be a problem. Groups of people who make things that only benefit themselves generally aren't called businesses.

The poster above explained that the new product might, say, increase the productivity of plumbers by 50%, and all other apps on the market are far worse.

Generally yes, I prefer titles that are descriptive rather than "this is a clever title and you'll find out why later"

It's not really a fact though- it's a framework for understanding engagement, and it's a trash framework.

It's used my the laziest shills to place blame for their shit content on some notion of public stupidity.

I don't like the idea of attention span in the context of media consumption. It presupposes that the producer has some kind of right to everyone else's attention just because they made something. If you're not going to help filter yourself out from people who won't be interested in you, it will be and should be an automatic no.

That last one seems to be going the other way.

No yang bucks. Better wages, publicly funded health care, no more war grift without an actually good reason.

I dont understand why Americans lack this magic spell you're talking about, meanwhile Harry Potter is running around Europe handing out healthcare and extending life spans and shit.

Are we just worse at life or something? Maybe we're not good enough?