A bunch of programmers on a boat who need to get every single essential supply from the mainland is not a society. It's a tax avoidance scheme.
It might even be profitable for a generation, until they start having kids and incur more costs.
And the funniest part? Small groups of people in scarcity/survival situations tend to organize themselves into something that looks much more like collectivism than it does capitalism.
When you criticize my lack of imagination, do you mean 'imagine' in the John Lennon sense?