I don't see how this has any viable advantage over either hiring legal workers in-country or international telecommuting. Who is so valuable that an inability to get a work visa warrants the enormous cost of a workaround infrastructure? instead of, say, just working the system until a visa can be acquired, or an alternative worker found?
To be sure, kicking around the recurring idea of an independent artificial island haven of raw [insert favorite "ism" here] is cool. There's a reason it hasn't happened yet: the value thereof does not exceed the cost of achieving and maintaining it.
There is decent/livable money in proposing exotic megaprojects - not because they have any chance of happening, but because just the proposal process attracts income.
As you point out, the challenges to overcome for such a project to succeed seem really huge compared to the expected benefit.
I think the one of the ideas about this kind of "overkill workaround" project is to get as much airtime as possible while kicking and screaming about how the current system is broken.
I wholeheartedly agree with the end goal, but to me this kind of article is really a form of disguised criticism - "Our system is SO broken that SOME PEOPLE are considering building an ARTIFICAL ISLAND (amazing, huh?, huh? HUH!? - wink wink sigh - yes it's really THAT bad!) to work around it.
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I don't see how this has any viable advantage over either hiring legal workers in-country or international telecommuting. Who is so valuable that an inability to get a work visa warrants the enormous cost of a workaround infrastructure? instead of, say, just working the system until a visa can be acquired, or an alternative worker found?
To be sure, kicking around the recurring idea of an independent artificial island haven of raw [insert favorite "ism" here] is cool. There's a reason it hasn't happened yet: the value thereof does not exceed the cost of achieving and maintaining it.
There is decent/livable money in proposing exotic megaprojects - not because they have any chance of happening, but because just the proposal process attracts income.
As you point out, the challenges to overcome for such a project to succeed seem really huge compared to the expected benefit.
I think the one of the ideas about this kind of "overkill workaround" project is to get as much airtime as possible while kicking and screaming about how the current system is broken.
I wholeheartedly agree with the end goal, but to me this kind of article is really a form of disguised criticism - "Our system is SO broken that SOME PEOPLE are considering building an ARTIFICAL ISLAND (amazing, huh?, huh? HUH!? - wink wink sigh - yes it's really THAT bad!) to work around it.