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by monerochan 6 days ago
I would reframe this as the rent-seekers not wanting to create anything for anyone else.

The reason Pirate-Monaco-Dubai-Island isn't productive is because all of the productive land is being squatted by rent-seekers. There is some history that indicates that anarchistic sort of socities can be productive, for example kowloon walled city.