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Ah, corporate run cities?
“It’s a fine day, full of opportunity!”
“If it took more than one shot, you weren't using a jakobs.“
"Hyperion would like to take this opportunity to say: cha-ching!"
"Anyone can live. Have the courage to die!"
“Just remember, you died doing what you loved! And what you were told to do!"
He really is going to kill us all. His plan is to eventually kill social security or something that will piss off his opposition.
His opposition will take to the streets and cops will be there. Anyone who kills a cop gets put to death. Martial law declared.
Then he'll take true power.
And religious people will eat it up as destiny because their books speak of an end similar to this. It almost seems too perfectly planned.
We're so fucked.
if i were trying to stop that scenario, i'd probably form/join a guerilla resistance, neutralize the cops, dethrone him and musk, then round up all the christians for reeducation camps and help ensure a 'never again' attitude for the surviving population.
This reads like an email or news message you find on random computers in dystopian computer games like Deus Ex or Cyberpunk 2077.
Ah, so Peter Thiel's crazy ass ideas are spreading. This is the same shit Musks' granddad dreamed of - a technocracy with governors...
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These people idolize Henry Ford, so they should double check the history on how he tried and failed spectacularly at the same thing: https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/19/lost-cities-10-fordlandia-failure-henry-ford-amazon
Ancapistan
You want Night City? This is how you get Night City...
We should finally eat the disgusting rich.
And you'll be paid in such lovely scrip, too. Just don't try using it somewhere else.
Hence, crypto.
Why are billionaires such free loaders? Build your own shit with your own money!
That's silly, if they do that they'd have less money. While if they do it with your money, you're the one with less money.
They tried a couple times but people just don't really want to move to the middle of the ocean of a jungle compound in South America
So they basically want to bring back the company towns from the gilded age, but more dystopian thanks to the possibilities of modern technology. Characteristics of company towns often were: "controlling and/or exploitative".
Control: If your employer does something unethical, will you dare go against it, if it means that not only will you lose your job, but you and your family will be also be kicked out of your house, school, town, ... Very few would.
Exploitative: where can the company town residents shop and find services? In the company shops of course. This constrained supply also leads to subpar service for high prices. And if company sales are down, the company will spend less on wages, but keep the company shop prices the same since the shoppers have no alternative anyhow.
Add in modern technology, and some of those towns will be like Brave New World, while others will evolve into 1984. Dystopian.
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It's odd how some people get wealthy and then want to start their own utopian fifedom. Rich guys were attempting this throughout the 19th century too.
Soon they'll start building freedom camps around these cities and will fill them up with the millions of incarcerated Americans so they can work towards freedom. As Germans have put it before, work makes you free.
Slave Plantations?
Freedom Cities, even the name is a lie.
Cities where they'd be free to do whatever they like? I see no lie. You've just been sold the idea that freedom was free. Turns out in the US it isn't.
It's been opposite day for a while now....
Hey guys, have you heard this new punk band? They got this weird lead singer called Johnny Silverhand...
I just wish they would be honest with their naming schemes. Stop with the "freedom this" and "freedom that" nonsense. They don't give a good goddam about freedom and we all know it. They are just trying to build "company towns" with touchscreens. We've already been down this road. You can slap all the lipstick you want on it, but it's still a fucking pig.
government officials ending every phrase with, "brought to you by carls jr" is getting more real of a likelihood all the time.
Are they anything like red states? If so, they are here to suck at the teet of bigger, better states like California that provide for them.
Fuck these welfare queens.
We already have those, ZEDEs in Honduras I think India used to have one called Lavasa & it failed😂
What? Oh man, I lived in Comayagua ages ago and never heard about this. Is it a fairly new thing?
I guarantee those execs think they will be building Star Trek / Federation level society. But the comment above is right, it will be Cyberpunk just with shittier technologies driven by “the invisible hand of the market” or some other drivel.
I guarantee those execs think they will be building Star Trek / Federation level society
Nah, they know they will just be building the Ferengi Trade Empire.
Literally Snow Crash, each burb is a independent corpocity state
With a side of Jennifer Government.
Oh they know exactly what kind of cities they want to build. The wealthy have been wanting their slaves back since 1865.
elon's already wanting to build musklandia in texas.