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Charter Cities Anonymous 07/22/2020 (Wed) 19:48:43 Id: aa45ba No. 3424
What about them? The idea is "Governance as a Service", you sign up in a city to either live there or start a business, and enter a contract which is also the permanent law, no unilateral changes possible. Taxes are nonexistant, instead you pay a yearly fee. The city guarantees security, infrastructure and so forth, and that's it. Your disputes with the city are subject to common law and would take place in front of international arbitration courts. This one is launching in the current year on a Honduran island, it's not quite the full package but it's a very solid start. https://prospera.hn/ https://econamericas.com/2020/07/first-charter-city-honduras-prospera-revives-zedes/ They see themselves in line with "special economic zone" cities / city-states like Hong Kong, Singapore, Monaco, or historical merchant cities like Venice. Personally i think this idea has great potential, it's the apolitical solution: Cities like these tend to be extremely economically successful (like Hong Kong for example), attract freedom- and business-minded people and silently grow into powerful economical hubs with top tier living standards
>>3424 It is a great idea. I remember on the old board talking about some of the economic zones Honduras was attempting to experiment with. What do these zones owe to the sovereign government they practice on?
>>3424 Badass idea, I was always fascinated by this and I do hope something like this happens, but I'm slightly worried about host governments devouring the cities before they can flourish or corrupting them into cyberpunk dystopias to tarnish the idea for ages to come. >This one is launching in the current year on a Honduran island, it's not quite the full package but it's a very solid start. As far as I know, the economist who actually came up with the charter cities idea - Paul Romer, was supposed to supervise the project, but he totally backed out and refused all association with it after the government started getting hijacking it and getting more involved than it should have, so idk how successful it will be, but he certainly doesn't have any confidence in it. >>3425 >What do these zones owe to the sovereign government they practice on? More potential wealth for the gov to parasitize off of later on, as long as they manage to restrain themselves while it generates.
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>Every economic advisor ever. "How about maybe allow 0.00000000001 in^2 of your land not have all the same laws as the rest?" >How every country implements a charter city. "THIS 0.0000000000000000000001 IN^2 WILL HAVE FIVE CORPORATIONS WE WILL GIVE SUBSIDIZED LOANS FOR." >Five years later LOLBERGS BTFO, ALL THEIR CHARTER CITIES FAIL AND SHOW THE FAILURE OF NEOLIBERAL LIBERTARIAN CONSERVATISM.
>>3427 >I'm slightly worried about host governments devouring the cities I noticed this thing via a german longform interview with Titus Gebel, who wrote "Free Private Cities" and is involved in this. He used to be chairman of Deutsche Rohstoff AG, which does large scale mining operations in foreign countries. He explains how you have to plan at least 20 years ahead in that business while investing very large sums, potentially in politically unstable shitholes. Since these companies don't want to lose billions of dollars whenever some local militia topples the current leadership and seizes all property or whatever else, there are well established international investment protection agreements and contracts for such situations, and those will be used for this project, and similar ones.
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>>3424 That is LITERALLY the exact same idea of "covenant communities" proposed by Hans-Hermann Hoppe
Why did the USA fight for freedom against the British, Hitler, North Korea, and Saddam if America just ended up as a police state? All those American soldiers died in vain. http://f2bbs.com/bbs
>>5310 Every ancient Egyptian, Greek, Persian, and Roman soldier died in vain, too. It's normal. Empires don't last forever.
Americans think that mandatory vaccines are wonderful because vaccines might work, but what if the globalists mandated lethal injections for everybody? Would Americans just accept this? Would the elites ever be punished?
>>5319 I I'll one up you. Say the Mark of the Beast is real. Will people take it.
>>3424 You The Free Charter Cities site (the one from FTL) seems dead. The ZDE in Honduras has one company working on it but so far nothing else new seems on the horizon.
>>5319 >what if the globalists mandated lethal injections for everybody? Would Americans just accept this? They would whine on social media, maybe peacefully protest
>>5312 >Every ancient Egyptian, Greek, Persian, and Roman soldier died in vain, too. It's normal. Empires don't last forever.


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