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I'd buy that for a dollar.
This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.
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!"
This reads like an email or news message you find on random computers in dystopian computer games like Deus Ex or Cyberpunk 2077.
Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution's take on micro transactions.
Well put
Ah, so Peter Thiel's crazy ass ideas are spreading. This is the same shit Musks' granddad dreamed of - a technocracy with governors...
Technocracy
noun
the government or control of society or industry by an elite of technical experts.
No mate, this is plutocracy. Technocracy implies knowledge, expertise, and facts dictating policy and direction. What you have is greedy rich fucks wanting yet more.
There is a fundamental difference.
This is why he bought Vance…
guns
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.
yeah, but no ones fucking organizing anything right now.
Thats not entirely true.
We have this but it needs to quicken with sign ups.
done!
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
You want Night City? This is how you get Night City...
And you'll be paid in such lovely scrip, too. Just don't try using it somewhere else.
Hence, crypto.
Ancapistan
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.
guns
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
We should finally eat the disgusting rich.
Good luck with that
It will be awful enough that no one will want it. "Hey, come and be a slave, please?"
Also theseassholes are not only assholes, they're all really dumb too and any previous attempts they made ended hilariously bad. I'm not too worried about this
Every day I watch the news or look at Lemmy or talk to a friend and I hear some horrible new way of creating a distopia I had never considered. It's depressing.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
Oh they know exactly what kind of cities they want to build. The wealthy have been wanting their slaves back since 1865.
I'm leaning more towards Halcyon and less like Night City
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