It gets tried every so often, but there are HUGE differences between companies and geographical/political governance.
The primary difference, in my mind, is filtering and voluntary association. People choose where to work, and companies choose who works for them, independently (mostly) of where they live, what kind of lifestyle they like, whether they have children or relatives nearby, etc. Cities and countries can sometimes turn away some immigrants, but they universally accept children born there and they can’t fire citizens who aren’t productive.
What you want sounds like Próspera. It is too early to say how that will work out.
They took some inspiration from Singapore. When Singapore became independent in 1965, it was a poverty-stricken third world place. It now has a better GDP/capita than countries like the USA. And also did things like come up with the best way of teaching math to elementary school students.
But Singapore is only libertarian in some ways. They are also a dictatorship who does not believe in, for instance, free speech. Their point is that when you cram immigrants from many cultures together, you’ll get problems if you don’t limit how much one group is allowed to offend another. I don’t like it, but also don’t have evidence that they are wrong.
Why can’t cities/countries be run more like exceptional companies? Efficient, innovative, etc.
How far away are we from people like Elon Musk being able to buy some land and build a new city with groundbreaking quality of life?
Would that even ever happen, and why yes or why not?
It gets tried every so often, but there are HUGE differences between companies and geographical/political governance.
The primary difference, in my mind, is filtering and voluntary association. People choose where to work, and companies choose who works for them, independently (mostly) of where they live, what kind of lifestyle they like, whether they have children or relatives nearby, etc. Cities and countries can sometimes turn away some immigrants, but they universally accept children born there and they can’t fire citizens who aren’t productive.
What you want sounds like Próspera. It is too early to say how that will work out.
They took some inspiration from Singapore. When Singapore became independent in 1965, it was a poverty-stricken third world place. It now has a better GDP/capita than countries like the USA. And also did things like come up with the best way of teaching math to elementary school students.
But Singapore is only libertarian in some ways. They are also a dictatorship who does not believe in, for instance, free speech. Their point is that when you cram immigrants from many cultures together, you’ll get problems if you don’t limit how much one group is allowed to offend another. I don’t like it, but also don’t have evidence that they are wrong.
And finally, most utopian experiments don’t work out very well. See A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear for an amusing example.