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Imagine a tiny pod-home that could plug into any coastal city or travel on net-zero energy ships to any other coastal city reasonably fast. Nomad utopia. Sea gypsies in JIT caravans. Or like RV living on the oceans with zero sailing skill needed.
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Seasteading is too monolithic and static an idea that would be entirely dumb if it weren’t for political borders. But sea caravaning would meaningfully utilize the freedom of the seas.
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It's an appealing solarpunk vision. In practice, not sure. I've noticed that life on islands tends to be significantly more expensive – certainly in terms of food and other goods – than life on the mainland. Logistics are important.
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In Cory Doctorow's Walkaway there are low-cost zeppelins that travel wherever the wind takes them ferrying around the countless unemployed masses that live outside the system
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I've imagined 2 seasteading tribal vectors. 1. Crypto-envrio-libertarians use its creation as a religious motif and liberate themselves from various top-down regimes 2. MegaCorp campuses that can avoid HQ2 fate and provide their GenZ employees perpetual Instagrammable living.
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The semi nomadic lifestyle seems like the highest form of human living... the romans in some ways were more semi nomads than settlers. The legions built a town each night. The mongols took that logic even further. Both were the vanguard for their era