This is actually already happening, as there are 250,000+ Brits in the UAE alone. It is also why we will see startup societies and network states. https://t.co/BAObgJ8zD3Marko Jukic (@mmjukic):As bad as things get, we know we are nowhere close to the bottom so long as there isn't mass emigration of Western citizens to safe foreign countries. This will likely happen, so we have a ways to go. Imagine Western immigrant communities in Dubai, China, Albania, El Salvador... ...

IMO people who called network states "colonialist" are wrong and misguided.We've seen a lot of large-scale colonialist evil the past few years. Almost none has come from network state exit libertarians, while a lot has come from people who decided libertarianism is outdated now"If you disagree with how things are run, go start a new thing" really is a very "robust-to-error" position to take. The potential negative consequences of what you do are localized, and are inherently bounded. Even though with the in ...