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What do people with absurd amounts of money do with their wealth? They turn James Bond props into actual gadgets, try to commercialize space with tourist travel and asteroid mining, and even purchase whole islands. Check it out this CNET article to learn even more about these crazy schemes. What would you do with billions of dollars?
Billion-dollar babies: Far-out pet projects of the tech elite | Tech Culture – CNET News.
I won’t lie, may favorite of these is the Seasteading Institute, which is a proposed off-shore island under the rule of no nation-state. It is supposed to be a means of testing, understanding, and revolutionizing government by instituting libertarian hands-off approach to law. This Huffington Post article has more.
