Silicon Valley billionaire reveals plan to launch floating ‘start up country’ off San Francisco

PayPal-founder Peter Thiel was so inspired by Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand’s novel about free-market capitalism – that he’s trying to make its title a reality.

The Silicon Valley billionaire has funnelled $1.25 million to the Seasteading Institute, an organization that aspires to launch a floating colony into international waters, freeing them and like-minded thinkers to live by Libertarian ideals.

And highly productive robots, with angular features, will cook their food, clean their houses and do their lawns. It is written that these robots will evolve into Randroids, the universe’s first perfect race of rugged individualists who will eventually do away with the weak humans and their collective instincts. Thus will dawn The Rational Age of the humanity-free market.