[jjeaff]

This is what I think when I read about these libertarian paradises people want to build on a huge floating barge in the ocean.

Watch how fast they start radioing for the coast guard when the pirates start showing up.

[throw123123123]

USA was created as a "libertarian paradise" with people renouncing citizenship and picking up guns to defend it.

It is not what it has become in the last 200 years. Modern society is very hard to revolt like this country was founded, but there are sprouts of it in the crypto community.

[toss1]

or, see how fast the surviving citizenry starts raising a defense budget when the US Coast Guard doesn't show up

[missedthecue]

I think the libertarians of all people would have an ample supply of munitions. I could see a libertarian offering a pirate safari

[astrange]

They wouldn't be able to maintain a sewer system or a public health infrastructure though so they'd probably all get cholera.

[webmaven]

> They wouldn't be able to maintain a sewer system or a public health infrastructure though so they'd probably all get cholera.

But imagine the market for patent snake-oil medicines that would create! The business opportunities boggle the mind.

[splintercell]

Keep moving the goal posts. All these things can be done (as they are generally done privately). The only thing Libertarians can't do is fight a total war.

[astrange]

Yes, they can be paid for by turning to piracy so you don't have to raise taxes.

https://www.npr.org/transcripts/771371881

[splintercell]

Piracy can only happen in non-private properties.