/r/Frontier_Colonization
Discuss frontier colonizations, including past colonizations like when humans first migrated out of Africa, current colonizations like towns with extreme heat, isolation, altitude, and cold, and future colonizations, like of Antarctica, the ocean (seasteading) and outer space!
Discuss frontier colonizations, including past colonizations like when humans first migrated out of Africa, current colonizations like towns with extreme heat, isolation, altitude, and cold, and future colonizations, like of Antarctica, the ocean (seasteading) and outer space!
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They try to sell remote services like computer programming in order to earn money. (Or is there anything else they could sell?)
Is this even possible? I mean could they even earn enough money, if they were spending all of their income on just maintaining their settlement, to pay for electricity generation, heating their buildings, growing food in greenhouses, importing whatever food they could not grow, and so forth? I would like to look into this question.
The Antarctic Treaty might be a barrier, but the first question is to see whether this is economically feasible. If it's not feasible, then the real barrier is economics.
I was thinking we could say anything that happens in Antarctica would incur no taxes, but you can already go to the Bahamas and avoid most taxes on up to $100K in income. So I don't think paying no taxes, by itself, would be enough to get anyone to move to Antarctica. Maybe we could also pass a law that says the government will cover at least part of the cost of shipping supplies there.
I found these books on Amazon
https://www.amazon.com/First-Peoples-New-World-Colonizing/dp/0520267990
https://www.amazon.com/Lone-Survivors-Came-Humans-Earth/dp/1250023300/
https://www.amazon.com/Before-Dawn-Recovering-History-Ancestors/dp/014303832X/
https://www.amazon.com/Sapiens-Humankind-Yuval-Noah-Harari/dp/0062316095
https://www.amazon.com/Social-Conquest-Earth-Edward-Wilson/dp/0871403633