A Pragmatic Plan with Atlas Island
Episode 13 of the Seasteading Today podcast features Mason and Ryota, founders of Atlas Island.
Episode 13 of the Seasteading Today podcast features Mason and Ryota, founders of Atlas Island.
I’m reading Atlas Shrugged for the first time, and I’ve been thinking about the economic tradeoffs involved in a movement like Galt’s Gulch or seasteading, where you take an initial charge in order to achieve higher long-term growth rates due to more efficient government.
I decided to model the costs of Gulching as an initial cost to wealth, and the gains as a higher exponential growth rate. To make the graphs easier (by making it wealth-invariant, and thus not having that extra variable), I modeled the initial cost as simply being a fraction of wealth.