Those already have a name - company town.
They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
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But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
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They didn't just fail on their own. They were very successful until the labor movement decided to meet violence with violence.
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It’s more insidious than that:
https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no%3Fsi%3Dfev-OzgZmzcUfsPW&t=1
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Can't wait to pick out which burbclave to join..
According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
Yes because the first thing I think needs regulations is fucking nuclear power!
If anyone reads that and goes “hell yea”…
Also what the fuck is a “nuclear reactor startup”?!? God, tech bros really take a whole bunch of privilege and advantage and just throw it all away to be dumber than anyone could have thought possible.
It's like a regular nuclear reactor, except it's run by people who don't know anything about nuclear reactors, the waste is dumped wherever without consequence, and the power output is only used to run an AI and mine cryptos.
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The "move fast and break things" mantra of silicon valley is bad enough when you aren't talking about breaking a goddamn nuclear reactor.
Can we just build an artificial island in the middle of the ocean for these losers? Just drop them there and let them try to figure it out. See how long before they come begging for help.
Sounds too much like Vault-Tec for my tastes.
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A city run by a corporation is the opposite of a "freedom city"
It's freedom from government regulations, many of which stem from the last time we let companies set up their own towns. What could possibly go wrong?
Last time we got full scale shooting wars between workers and companies. If I'm putting on my optimist hat then I'd say at least we'll get to shoot some rich folk.
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Yes, but it does follow republican naming convention. Right to work states are anything but, for example.
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“ You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go I owe my soul to the company store “
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War Is Peace. Freedom Is Slavery. Ignorance Is Strength.
Did these guys play cyberpunk? Like that game pretty much embodies what these guys are asking for.
I think Musk has talked about the game, and obviously every message was completely lost on him and his main takeaway was that "Arasaka is cool. I want to be that."
That is exactly what they want.
“Blade Runner would drive a cybertruck!”
They would love that. That game is all about execs essentially being royalty. That's like their wet dream.
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Do you want Night City? Because this is quite literally how you get Night City.
I'm starting to think that's what they want.
Always has been. Cyberpunk (the genre) was a warning. We didn't listen.
A genre built in the 80's and 90's, a commentary on the inevitable path of neoliberalism?
No way!
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This is the dumbest branding exercise ever. There are no additional "freedoms" that you can get in a corporate-run city versus a regular city; except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.
If the future that Curtis Yarvin and his type envision starts to shape up, we're gonna need to go full, 100% anti-corporation to push back.
except that perhaps the corporation has more freedom to trounce upon the rights of the citizenry.
That is exactly the kind of freedom they are looking for, and don't underestimate the psychology there - it feels like freedom to them, the kind of freedom that allows for injustices to prevail. I'm reminded of an anecdote of Ẑiẑek, talking to a bunch of fascists in former Yugoslavia, where they in no uncertain terms revealed, that it had been tyranny to them to not be able to be violent, rape, plunder, etc. and that the chaos of the breakup had been a liberatory event for them, psychologically.
Never assume "freedom" is something, that opposing classes and groups in general agree upon when it comes to its definition.
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Tech bros love to rename terrible shit from the past and call it an invention.
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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.
It would never happen that way.
By the way, we used to do this. You can read all about it. It's very very bad.
There we go. Now we're looking at the Star Trek dystopia that we expected last year.
Just a bit delayed
This "plan" is literally the setting of Snow Crash
I didn't think I would live to see Cyberpunk become a reality. Or the return of Company Towns. Either one sounds preposterous.
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Freedom Cities is a branding exercise in the same tradition as the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. The more you have to advertise how free a society is, the less free it tends to be in practice.