Paypal Founder Puts a Half Million Dollars Into Seasteading

eldavojohn writes "Wired is running an informative article on Paypal Founder Peter Thiel's investment in seasteading. There's a great graphic indicating how the spar design helps platforms weather rough seas with a ballast. There's a lot more than just Thiel throwing the half million towards this and they hope to pitch this to San Fransisco for a bay pilot. Ocean colonies can be both liberating and also downright human-rights-lacking scary."

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As you are obviously amazingly simple minded, allow me to explain the meaning of my post: you are a histrionic idiot. Or, in more detail: you have redefined the word "fair" in order to attempt to make some kind of inane point.

Let me clarify for your tiny monkey brain. When your intellectual superiors talk about fairness, they can mean a lot of things, only one of which is equality of opportunity, which is what you have focused on. And you have seized on a particularly negative form of equality of outcome, which amounts to reducing everyone to the lowest common denominator. Which is unbelievably stupid and unrealistic when there are so many better ways of achieving equality of outcome, assuming that's what you want to do.

Not everyone defines equality of outcome as fair. Some people think it's unfair. Some people think equality of opportunity is more fair. But all this is clearly beyond the mind of someone like you, who is only capable of seeing the world in black and white simplicities. Which is why I didn't bother including any content in my first post, as anything of sufficient intelligence is clearly beyond your capacity to comprehend.