How much sense does it make for people to focus on unclaimed or disputed territory when trying to establish a stateless society? I thought I´d include some possible areas and you guys could give me your thoughts on the locations. The places are as follows:
Antartica, Western Sahara, and international waters.
I’ve pondered about this idea a lot as well. I don’t have too much knowledge on the subject but many ideas have been passed around about seasteading. I’ve been thinking that trying to acquire some land where an ancap society would grow would be great but only so long as you can keep growing without some foreign government interfering, probably the US coming up with some stupid reason and trying to “help” by disrupting your operations. If anyone with more knowledge replies, I’d like to also know how such a society would respond to a foreign intervention.
Not much sense. This land is not very valuable.
The land that you refer to is sub-marginal, meaning that the costs of using it exceed its value. In order for anything to have value, there must be a scarcity. Real estate development begins with the most desireable land, followed by the next most desireable until it reaches the sub-marginal land. This land would not be developed even without governments because there is no scarcity.
International waters are used for transportation and fishing. Currently, the levels of transportation in most areas of the world have not reached a level where there is a scarcity, so the seas and oceans can effectively serve as a commons for this use. There are some who claim that certain species of fish are being depleted. We would know if this was happening because the price of fish would skyrocket. Commercial fishermen who pursue localized fish have already developed territories in which they expect others to avoid fishing. For pelagic fish, some other system would have to be developed. My proposal would be that any fish that was caught and released should be weighed and tagged. If the same fish was subsequently caught and kept, the boat that caught the fish the second time would owe the boat that caught it the first time the value of the fish when it was first caught.