Floating City Seastead

The Floating City Seastead is one type of Seastead.

Arguments In Favor

1. If many people go together on a large structure it should be easier to handle large waves.
2. There is also a community of people so it is easier to have specialized jobs and social interaction.
3. There are probably economies of scale in Internet access, power production, water filtration, and other systems.

Arguments Against

1. Probably more costly than some other types of seastead.
2. A 200 person community needs to have some rules and procedures. Could end up like a land democracy. The wrong rules could cause the venture to fail.
3. Easier for existing governments to put pressure on a large seastead than lots of small ones run by different people and spread out.
4. Hard for subsets of population to do dynamic geography if it is one big structure.
5. Takes a big initial investment to get started, not very incremental.