Single Family Seastead
The Single Family Seastead is one of the types of Seastead. The key idea is that a structure engineered for a family to live on the open ocean could be better optimized for this goal than anything else. It should "beat a boat" in terms of space, stability, and cost.
Arguments In Favor
- See also Vince Seasteading Views.
- A single family seastead should take less capital to startup.
- These can be more stable than the types of boats that many families already travel around the world in.
- There is at least a niche market for families who want to live on the water.
- A SFS lets each family decide where they want to go, so dynamic geography works at a fine granularity.
- There is no need for new government structures at the start as each SFS can just get some country flag like any yacht.
- It is probably easier to tile together lighter weight SFS than large seasteads.
- More "incremental" than others and so has a better chance of working. As the number of SFSs grows stores and such will pop up and life in the flotilla will become more interesting so there will be less need for each SFS to visit land.
Arguments Against
- Something just incrementally better than a boat might not change things much.
- Designing a whole new type of structure adds risk to the venture.
- Without tiling together, it might be too isolated for most people.
