Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.
Most people like things like air conditioning, well cooked meals, and comfortable beds. It’s difficult to convince a group of people in 2026 to hike out into some seemingly unclaimed land where the environment is pretty much sure to be awful and start constructing huts and rebuilding society while living off the land.
Where? Can you find a nice plot of land where a city could be constructed in a place where it would be free to create it’s own moral laws, that’s accessible enough to the folks here from all around the world that they’d be able to pop in easily to help out regularly while still maintaining the job necessary for survival until it’s built up enough to allow for that?
Why start with the city? Start with any business in a normal country and expand until there is enough funding. Then, the project is big enough that somewhere a country will be willing to provide the land. At least the US will create freedom cities soon.
Funding makes it easier but also more difficult. In my opinion the biggest problem is finding the people who want to live in the future. With funding, people larp just to get some of the money. Without it there are only intrinsically motivated people who work together to create the funding. Finding them is what is needed to get going.
Most people like things like air conditioning, well cooked meals, and comfortable beds. It’s difficult to convince a group of people in 2026 to hike out into some seemingly unclaimed land where the environment is pretty much sure to be awful and start constructing huts and rebuilding society while living off the land.
No need to start like that. Building a city can be done after gaining experience with many other projects.
Where? Can you find a nice plot of land where a city could be constructed in a place where it would be free to create it’s own moral laws, that’s accessible enough to the folks here from all around the world that they’d be able to pop in easily to help out regularly while still maintaining the job necessary for survival until it’s built up enough to allow for that?
I sure can’t.
Why start with the city? Start with any business in a normal country and expand until there is enough funding. Then, the project is big enough that somewhere a country will be willing to provide the land. At least the US will create freedom cities soon.