This is a really interesting idea, but they will have to be very careful about the culture and laws they enforce, especially with regards to wages and working hours.
Who pays the rent? What if the team member wants a private cabin and not sweatshop style accommodation? (Maybe I am thinking about the wrong demographic?)
- What happens when you want to leave and your visa is expired/revoked ? This sound like a place where you could really get stuck, with all the associated potential for abuse.
- They can make a killing on the price of coffee, food and entertainment for all these people.
Minor quibble: the 1GBps link seems small distributed over all the companies/person they imagine.
In the slide deck, it mentions that to get onto the boat, you need to put down a deposit to cover travel to a country of your choice. One would hope that they'd run a quick sanity check that each person's chosen country was one they had residency or a visa for (I can see someone only stumping up enough money to get to shore, but not actually having a US visa...)
Minor quibble? The 1Gbps (notice the small 'b') is a f*cking disaster. My ADSL connection has about 10Gbps (1.2MB/s), and that is so-so. Imagine you are working and need to download a 600MB Linux ISO, or something like that. Disaster. Makes one question their logic and the whole project.
Who pays the rent? What if the team member wants a private cabin and not sweatshop style accommodation? (Maybe I am thinking about the wrong demographic?)
- What happens when you want to leave and your visa is expired/revoked ? This sound like a place where you could really get stuck, with all the associated potential for abuse.
- They can make a killing on the price of coffee, food and entertainment for all these people.
Minor quibble: the 1GBps link seems small distributed over all the companies/person they imagine.