(I would take her more seriously if she hadn't spent a decade and a half pushing the WEF's Global Warming end times apocalyptic nonsense herself.)
from The Guardian
The movement for corporate city states cannot
believe its good luck. For years, it has been pushing the extreme notion
that wealthy, tax-averse people should up and start their own high-tech
fiefdoms, whether new countries on artificial islands in international
waters (“seasteading”) or pro-business “freedom cities” such as Próspera, a glorified gated community combined with a wild west med spa on a Honduran island.
Yet
despite backing from the heavy-hitter venture capitalists Peter Thiel
and Marc Andreessen, their extreme libertarian dreams kept bogging down:
it turns out most self-respecting rich people don’t actually want to
live on floating oil rigs, even if it means lower taxes, and while
Próspera might be nice for a holiday and some body “upgrades”, its
extra-national status is currently being challenged in court.
Now,
all of a sudden, this once-fringe network of corporate secessionists
finds itself knocking on open doors at the dead center of global power.
The first sign that fortunes were shifting came in 2023, when a campaigning Donald Trump, seemingly out of nowhere, promised to hold a contest that would lead to the creation of 10 “freedom cities”
on federal lands. The trial balloon barely registered at the time, lost
in the daily deluge of outrageous claims. Since the new administration
took office, however, would-be country starters have been on a lobbying
blitz, determined to turn Trump’s pledge into reality.
“The energy in DC is absolutely electric,” Trey Goff, the chief of staff of Próspera, recently enthused
after a trip to Capitol Hill. Legislation paving the way for a bevy of
corporate city-states should be complete by the end of the year, he
claims...
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