(In theory you could buy a piece of land, but in practice, countries are unwilling to sell.)
Buying land from governments really hasn’t been a very legitimate concept from the beginning. Even if they are willing to sell, the people living there probably don’t want you ruling them, and where they don’t want to sell, I fail to see the crime against humanity in paying people to move to another country until there are few enough left that you can walk in, become the super majority, and declare yourself the new government.
Of course, that doesn’t mean men with guns won’t try to stop you. I can very much see how elites with guns like this environment where no one ever has the option of forming a new country, or buying out their own country from under them. The problem here is that people who are not powerful elites tolerate this, and don’t consider that we could cut governments out of this equation entirely.
Buying land from governments really hasn’t been a very legitimate concept from the beginning. Even if they are willing to sell, the people living there probably don’t want you ruling them, and where they don’t want to sell, I fail to see the crime against humanity in paying people to move to another country until there are few enough left that you can walk in, become the super majority, and declare yourself the new government.
Of course, that doesn’t mean men with guns won’t try to stop you. I can very much see how elites with guns like this environment where no one ever has the option of forming a new country, or buying out their own country from under them. The problem here is that people who are not powerful elites tolerate this, and don’t consider that we could cut governments out of this equation entirely.