If they set up a medical tourism business just offshore, will that be unremarkable or destroyed?
It is unremarkable in that medical tourism is available in many countries already. Making it much cheaper might have a dramatic effect. or not.
Yes, there are certain bounds that the US imposes, but are there so many?
ETA: I see that MM gives medicine as his particular example of what won't succeed. And Patri answers that medical tourism already exists. I don't think that's a great answer and the rest of his comment is a weird mix of practical (cruise ships do violate labor law) and naive (written law). But I don't find MM's short argument convincing, either.
Recently the relatively awesome entrepreneur invested 1.25 million USD into this (seasteading institute website here).
It seems such a wonderful concept, finally somewhere where new forms of government could be tried out. But I'm just wondering how in the world they hope to deal with existing governments since their reaction to any kind of serious alternatives, especially one that either economically or ideologically presented a significant challenge, is bound to not be positive.
I was just wondering what LWer thoughts are on this matter? Also has there been any discussion of seasteading in the past that I've missed? Also I'm wondering if anyone would hazard to perhaps offer a prediction or judge how likley this is to succeed (maybe on predictionbook)?