Imagine this…you live and wfh on a cruise ship using starlink. It's small and catered to your demographic and interests. It is powered by green tech. It visits only private land so it doesn't ruin a local community. You can "take a break" in these private communities whenever you want, the cost is the same whether you are renting a cabin onboard or a hut on the beach.
The creative ideas are endless. How about a cruise that is a nursing school and you learn and treat local populations that don't have access to healthcare? Expand this to any trade. These aren't new ideas in themselves but we could bundle them all up to suit the needs of the new regime and paradigm that has already begun. It's time for the millennials to start marking the new rules.
Globalization as we know it is ending for all the reasons it was started, now, breaking down and gathering momentum. Instead of isolating in our separate countries, how about we think more of what the future of a global community could look like. What would a global community look like to you in the wake of the breakdown of global trade?
Reimagining Cruising (yes, the boomer kind)
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Globalization is ending? Global trade is ending? Quick, someone let TEMU know!
But really, why make this on a ship when you could do the same thing on land for a fraction of the cost? Ah, but then this would ruin the Elysium/Snowpiercer fantasy… A cruise ship is just an all-inclusive resort on a boat, space would be at a premium and the price would be astronomical. It would probably end up being a floating doomsday bunker for the ultra-wealthy who would buy up all the available rooms, just in case, where laws don’t apply and money is power.
This sounds garbage. Cruise ships are entertainment coffins. You go there, you’re locked in, you have the tiniest cabin they can provide. Supplies and variety are limited by ship supplies. Your friend and family… they aren’t doing this with you if this is your WFH lifestyle.
“the possibilities are endless” – aka, a different cabin on the cruise ship or the island it’s going to stop at. Those are the endless options?
If you worked in IT this could be a jurisdiction and tax nightmare. Literally. An employer employs someone in a state, but if the person doesn’t reside in the state the taxes are either illegally collected or not collected, the tax benefits or incentives the employer receives aren’t legally claimed, the employer may get a tax break on new intellectual property created by an employee of a state and certain protections which go right out the window in this scenario. Information security, licensing, IP rights all fall under question.
The employee could be liable for taxes in whatever state they land in or be a tax dodger.
Health is another issue. During COVID cruise ships and communities that serviced them were ravaged as it was a contained unit near guaranteeing your infection, and after reboarding the communities got hit by people who didn’t know they were infected. Transmission of disease is a real problem aboard cruise ships.
There’s like a thousand other issues of which there aren’t simply blanket solutions. If you get past all that, you’re stuck on the cruise ship in your tiny cabin. For an extended period, that social circle is gonna get old real fast. Even cruise ship employees consider it a temporary lifestyle for a few years and move on. Could someone do it for a year? Yeah, but I suspect it would be a social reclusive person who would prefer to isolate anyway.
Tbh, I don’t see the point. Cruise ships cost a massive amount to build and they aren’t cheap to run/staff/supply. If someone could build so much accommodation, I don’t see why they wouldn’t be a property developer building apartments to flip faster than the ship building process and a decade to recoup their money.
Imagine that someone did try to start this and they fucked over everyone who joined lmaooooo
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Generally speaking someone with deep pockets would need to be funding it. Governments already do it with navies and humanitarian missions, some NGOs do sort of similar things, and then there’s cults.
The most likely source for what you’re talking about would be a cult. Some of them have legitimate fortunes, and are willing to invest those fortunes into ideas like making a commune on a ship and going on missions to recruit.
Next up would be deep pocket private investors who want a trial run for private space missions or cultish doomsday bunkers, like they take a group of people and stick them on a ship and try out ideas like if they can make a self contained micocolony work. Biodome on a boat, more or less.