

Charter Cities - mhb
http://chartercities.org/blog/33/a-charter-city-in-cuba

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tjic
> To help the city flourish, the Canadians encourage immigration. It is a
> place with Canadian judges and Mounties that happily accepts millions of
> immigrants. Some of the new residents could be Cuban émigrés who

So the Canadian government, despite having no authority and no mandate to do
so, decides to start administering an overseas possession ... except it's not
really a possession.

Canada does this ... _why_ ?

> Initially, the government of Cuba lets some of its citizens participate by
> migrating to the new city.

The Cuban government, like the East German government, chooses to _murder_
people who try to emigrate. When given a choice, people leave dictatorships,
and because dictatorships are slave societies built for the benefit of the
rulers on the backs of the citizens, this makes perfect sense. Farmers don't
want their livestock wandering free, and neither do dictators.

> With clear rules spelled out in the charter and enforced by the Canadian
> judicial system, all the infrastructure for the new city is financed by
> private investment.

Why do private investors want to take a gamble on such a crazy scheme?

Why not just invest their money building infrastructure in places where people
_already_ choose to live?

> The structure of the charter could be very different, perhaps with several
> partner nations in place of just one. The benefits could be just as large.

Huh?

Look, I'm a lunatic libertarian. I'm in favor of oceansteading, L-5 colonies,
anarchocapitalism, etc. ... so when I say that something sounds like a really
ridiculous dope-smoking idea, that _means_ something...

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anamax
You're forgetting something. Some people really, really want Cuba to succeed.

That's why they're not proposing to set this up in, say Haiti.

Since they're essentially arguing for "we're going to show the savages how to
do things", Cuba is a reasonable choice because it already has police state
apparatus.

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mhb
TED talk: <http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_romer.html>

