This should be mandatory reading for "Internet generation" entrepreneurs.
It is a clear exposition on why people need to engage their local institutions to change the law to meet their needs, rather than to try to create from whole cloth new institutions. When folks argue that changing the law of the land is 'hard' I do not disagree, but when they say creating something new from scratch is 'easier' I do. Like a manager who just sees the effects of the software and not how it achieves those effects, creation tends to look easier to the ignorant than to the experienced.
Anyway, there are great lessons to be learned in the story of Sealand.
It is a clear exposition on why people need to engage their local institutions to change the law to meet their needs, rather than to try to create from whole cloth new institutions. When folks argue that changing the law of the land is 'hard' I do not disagree, but when they say creating something new from scratch is 'easier' I do. Like a manager who just sees the effects of the software and not how it achieves those effects, creation tends to look easier to the ignorant than to the experienced.
Anyway, there are great lessons to be learned in the story of Sealand.