Fucking Georgists. Why am I not surprised?Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:17 pmA billionaire wants to build a utopia in the US desert. Seems like this could go wrong
Jessa Crispin wrote:The architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They’re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030
Welcome to Telosa, a $400bn “city of the future,” according to its founder, the billionaire Marc Lore. The city doesn’t exist yet, nor is it clear which state will house the experiment, but the architects of the proposed 150,000-acre project are scouting the American south-west. They’re already predicting the first residents can move in by 2030.
Telosa will eventually house 5 million people, according to its website, and benefit from a halo of utopian promises: avant-garde architecture, drought resistance, minimal environmental impact, communal resources. This hypothetical metropolis promises to take some of the most cutting-edge ideas about sustainability and urban design and make them reality.
The plan combines ideas about urban farming (the “beacon” tower of the project will house aeroponic farms) and quality of life (a city where everyone can live and work and play within a 15-minute commute) alongside new green technologies and a model of land ownership proposed, but never executed, by the 19th-century economist Henry George. These are ideas that have remained in the abstract or only attempted on a small scale; now they will have a whole American metropolis to experiment with, brought to life by the creative ambitions of one very rich man.
This is a guy who built his fortune in part through Walmart, a labor-busting company that pays its own workers so little that they often have to rely on government-funded welfare programs despite being employed full-time.
Lore made another chunk of his fortune by selling a venture to Amazon, a company so odious in its treatment of workers that even the Wall Street Journal has turned up its nose. Both of these companies have been instrumental in funneling money and joy from the lower classes and handing it over to a select few who can think lofty thoughts about, “What would make society better?”
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Doesn't sound very alt-right if they are interested in environmentalism and communal resources.
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That's not green wash. That's ideological.
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Do you believe them? It is all a front just to build the largest gated community. It sounds like the worst sci-fi nightmare ever. Was there not a sci-fi film based on this idea? What do you do if you get booted out? Build another gated community? Or an outlaw gang? This would spiral into a disaster.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:33 amDoesn't sound very alt-right if they are interested in environmentalism and communal resources.
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Holland is one big gated community.Scot Dutchy wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:18 amDo you believe them? It is all a front just to build the largest gated community. It sounds like the worst sci-fi nightmare ever. Was there not a sci-fi film based on this idea? What do you do if you get booted out? Build another gated community? Or an outlaw gang? This would spiral into a disaster.pErvinalia wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 3:33 amDoesn't sound very alt-right if they are interested in environmentalism and communal resources.
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Unsupported claim.
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Unsupported claim. What is absolute about it.
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Get over it and move on guys.
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If he keeps on making unsupported claims and racist remarks I will keep on pointing them out. Sorry. Do I have to accept them from dream boy.
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You're right, it's not alt-Right per se. It depends on who sets the buy-in conditions though doesn't it? And who buys in of course.pErvinalia wrote:Doesn't sound very alt-right if they are interested in environmentalism and communal resources.
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It is as alt-Right as it comes. Do you think it will be a social paradise? Far from it. Only those with the money will get in. Who is going to police it? Political control? Will it be a democracy when the Americans have never known one.Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Tue Sep 21, 2021 7:50 amYou're right, it's not alt-Right per se. It depends on who sets the buy-in conditions though doesn't it? And who buys in of course.pErvinalia wrote:Doesn't sound very alt-right if they are interested in environmentalism and communal resources.
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Georgism isn't alt-Right. You might call it a form of technocratic capitalism though.
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Look at the guys background. It drips alt-right.
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