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title: "“Government is an inefficient industry because it has an insane…"
date: 2009-01-20
source: facebook
type: Archer T. Ships shared a link.
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# “Government is an inefficient industry because it has an insane…

*January 20, 2009 · Facebook*

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[http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/17-02/mf_seasteading?currentPage=all](http://www.wired.com/techbiz/startups/magazine/17-02/mf_seasteading?currentPage=all){target="_blank"}
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"Government is an inefficient industry because it has an insane barrier to entry," he says. "To compete with governments on existing land, you have to win a war, an election, or a revolution." He points to the democracy that emerged from the American Revolution as the last successful rollout and attributes the subsequent dry spell to the lack of uncolonized space on the map. "We've run out of frontier," he says.\
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But there's still one virgin realm left, and it covers 70 percent of the earth's surface.\
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I\'m not quoted in the article, but they linked to the video where I give my presentation on the laws likely to affect seasteading.
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