iirc in the high middle ages the average feudal lord's holdings were not contiguous, but rather separated into fields here and there. when you put it like that this makes a lot of sense.
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this was primarily for the benefit of the king. dont want the barons to have their power concentrated in one place
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People don't do it because various states have shitty laws / tax regimes designed to fuck people trying to live free of state interference. Schelling points are what they are.
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Someone I know interested in this kind of project has used the phrase "chain of islands" to describe that result and I love both the term and the practice.
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west coast as new burnt over district exporting its communities of weird online tech people to the rest of the country
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also much more likely to happen. in the short term I think the projects that actually get built are going to be 1-5 people, just for organizational reasons
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my strategy is I have an apartment in reno and 20 acres two hours drive away and I'm going to be building stuff incrementally myself over the course of the next year
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If we get enough people involved, we can connect these disparate communities using zip lines. Would make it really easy to escape to the next community in a jam.
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I would expect 95% of these farms to fail within three years
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Which is why farms are a bad model. Clusters of individually owned dachas are better.
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