I guess I was hoping on a massive government breakdown or that things just get bad enough were people start to take a step back and look around. If things got bad enough I figured they'd start favoring liberty over government but maybe not. I don't believe that people vote on a rational basis and I agree that they most likely just vote who there parents voted. But when you start to lose so many freedoms I just really believe that everyone has a point where they will realize how ineffective there voting is. When there family members go to jail for something ridiculous or are unjustly injured/killed by a cop that maybe something isn't working here. You keep talking about seasteading but whose going to be able to afford that? You say thats its the most likely option for radical change but is likely to fail then what do you do besides what you can?
Maximizing your own personal freedom comes above any sort of grand projects in my mind.
Thats why I'm moving to Switzerland ASAP.
I get to own a gun where I couldn't before, I get to buy and sell drugs without persecution where i couldn't before, I get to pay for prostitution legally, I get the option to pay someone to kill me, and I pay about half as much tax as I currently do.
Is switzerland a liberty haven? Far from it. Tax is still around 20-40% depending on which canton you live in. Gun regulation is fairly mixed. You can own a assault rifle, but you can't carry a pistol around without a license.
Switzerland has national military training, although you can opt out of this, and as an immigrant I would not be expected to do any of it. This is poor in terms of liberty, but is somewhat offset by the fact Switzerland don't invade any other countries.
While in recent times drug laws have been improving (10 out of 16 cantons have decriminalized cannabis and sale of), I don't expect all drugs to be legalized any time soon, and it would not surprise me if there was a backlash against recent liberalization, the same goes for prostitution.
But, overall, I'll be in a lot better situation than I was.
The key difference is, I'm not moving in hopes of some great revolution, and I wouldn't mislead others by telling them to do the same in those hopes.
When there family members go to jail for something ridiculous or are unjustly injured/killed by a cop that maybe something isn't working here.
As I have mentioned many times before, this simply isn't a realistic expectation for change.
The gun isn't just in the room, its loaded, cocked, and being pointed at every day people. Ever recall the story about an old woman who was killed in a no knock raid by DEA, and it turned out the DEA had pressured someone into saying that the house was being used for drugs? What about the dozens of other cases of Average Joes, not young black men, being tazed, women being molested by police officers, all of it on film, and making no difference.
The vast majority of people either don't care enough to pay attention or think its okay. Thats why Civ Dis is a completely ridiculous method of trying to raise awareness for liberty. The government is doing 10 times a better job of showing how violent and illegitimate it is than people like Sam and Lauren Canario are doing, but it doesn't do shit to raise the number of libertarians.
Seasteading is perfectly affordable if you're willing to make the sacrifice. Of course, not for some 19 year old with a minimum wage job, but they can't do much anything.
Anyone with a house and a car can afford to seastead. Of course, an average guy could not afford to build a seastead, but he could easily afford to rent housing there. Cost is not the main barrier for seasteading, its about whether A) governments will leave them alone, and B) whether they'll function properly as microcosm.
I highly recommend reading the Seasteading Institutes
research paper on Seasteading.
Seasteading Conference videoIt covers everything from how to deal with barnacles and wave damage, to how the market within the seastead may function, to how we get from here to there. Reading this gives you a feel for how much more practical and well thought out this project is compared to
failed projects of the past