The Seasteading Institute

Reply To: strategy

We are in the final stages of coming up with a strategy proposal to get y'alls feedback on, from a 1 to 100 year horizon. As Thorizan says, this is a decades-long project to get a sea-city.nude007 says: "I think it is unreasonable to postulate initially creating hundreds of seasteads, each pursuing its own piece of an economic puzzle, creating a community. That means that you first have to have hundreds of seasteads created initially (instead of one) and each must provide a resource valuable enough to the others to support it. Not to mention, that means each seastead would tend to provide onlyt the service or product it would offer and have no room for anything else, to maximize profit and "stay afloat". That means there would be very little space for living quarters and none for parks or other "human" needs.To me, this seems really backwards and completely impractical. To me, there must be one huge seastead that encompasses every aspect of life"While I can see why this point of view would be intuitive, it is clearly contradicted by the large community of people who live aboard sailboats. These small boats have all the problems you speak of - no economies of scale, little space for living quarters or other needs, hard to make money - yet they exist all over the world. They aren't self-sufficient, they aren't "sustainable". They exist because people love living in them, love traveling, and are willing to live cheaply off savings accumulated on land. Why wouldn't the same model work for small seasteads?