I think it’s hilarious that they are so dumb that a satire movie like RoboCop is regarded as blueprint for the future. How cartoonishly evil do they have to be?
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Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.
They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That's like their wet dream.
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I actually like this idea. So long as the CEOs are required to live in the town as well a minimum of 300 days out of the year.
Because working in an office is worth the collaboration.
And I like knowing where the CEOs are so that checks instance name I can play Minecraft with them in person. I get so much more enjoyment playing Minecraft in person and would like to make sure the latency is really low.
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Ironically, “Freedom Cities” not free.
Is Elon so mad that he wasn't in the game Cyberpunk 2077 but Grimes was, and wants to spitefully create his own Night City and Arasaka tower in real life to have his little fantasy?
The French had an answer to "Let them eat cake."
Me thinks the tech-bros won't like that answer very much.
Cyberpunk 2025
Dystopian AF.
One of these ghouls that I rarely hear brought up in these discussions is Steve Jobs’ widow, Laurene Powell Jobs. I believe that she is involved in the effort to build something like this in Solano County, California. She’s supposed to be a big Democratic Party supporter, so I suspect that the effort to create corporate cities is not an exclusively Republican project. I wish there was more reporting on her.
The US Democratic party is also a neoliberal right-wing party, just a bit more moderate.
This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.
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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.
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This is exactly what Elon Musk and Peter Thiel want, to own city states as kings using neo-feudalism.
See:
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Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution's take on micro transactions.
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They should absolutely do this because tech bros cannot do municipal government and they will spend years throwing all of their money into a nuclear powered bitcoin mining boondoggle with open sewage that produces nothing.
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And you'll be paid in such lovely scrip, too. Just don't try using it somewhere else.
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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.
Snow Crash anyone?
Slave Plantations?
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
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.
Is anybody actually watching Severance? An underlying theme of the last episode was that this kind of crap specifically is a bad idea.
Frickin’ wild that Apple TV+ puts it out at all, honestly…
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anyone ever played shadowrun, because that is the way we're heading...
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