I like this idea, but for it to work how we want to, having immigration unregulated isn’t quite the right way to put it. Immigration needs to be free, perhaps by contract between charter cities.
There’d need to be protocols for the creation of the cities, for the transfer of land between them, for them shutting down, and so on. Perhaps this could be organized by a meta-government. I’m not sure how well a decentralized system would deal with that.
The barriers to entry would be very high, unfortunately, and while I’m not well versed on the economics of the development of monopolies, it appears to me that there might need to be some kind of regulation to prevent them from developing and allowing new charter cities to enter the market somehow. Unless the division of land was predetermined and static, which also solves the previous problems of land transfer and city creation.
In the end this ends up being a substantially less elegant system than initially imagined, but that doesn’t mean it’s still not potentially far more elegant and effective than the system we have now. States are supposed to operate and compete in a similar manner, but there aren’t enough of them for that to work well enough and AFAICT the federal government plays a much larger role than is ideal.
Forgive me if I’m being stupid, I only get over my social anxiety enough to post if I’m a little bit drunk.
I like this idea, but for it to work how we want to, having immigration unregulated isn’t quite the right way to put it. Immigration needs to be free, perhaps by contract between charter cities.
There’d need to be protocols for the creation of the cities, for the transfer of land between them, for them shutting down, and so on. Perhaps this could be organized by a meta-government. I’m not sure how well a decentralized system would deal with that.
The barriers to entry would be very high, unfortunately, and while I’m not well versed on the economics of the development of monopolies, it appears to me that there might need to be some kind of regulation to prevent them from developing and allowing new charter cities to enter the market somehow. Unless the division of land was predetermined and static, which also solves the previous problems of land transfer and city creation.
In the end this ends up being a substantially less elegant system than initially imagined, but that doesn’t mean it’s still not potentially far more elegant and effective than the system we have now. States are supposed to operate and compete in a similar manner, but there aren’t enough of them for that to work well enough and AFAICT the federal government plays a much larger role than is ideal.
Forgive me if I’m being stupid, I only get over my social anxiety enough to post if I’m a little bit drunk.