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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)
[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 day ago

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!"

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 day ago

This reads like an email or news message you find on random computers in dystopian computer games like Deus Ex or Cyberpunk 2077.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This is what happens when you let white people read Atlas Shrugged in college. smh.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Ah, so Peter Thiel's crazy ass ideas are spreading. This is the same shit Musks' granddad dreamed of - a technocracy with governors...

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

This is why he bought Vance…

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Friendly reminder that company towns and company scrips are the industrial revolution's take on micro transactions.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeah, but no ones fucking organizing anything right now.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thats not entirely true.

We have this but it needs to quicken with sign ups.

https://generalstrikeus.com/

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Why are billionaires such free loaders? Build your own shit with your own money!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

And you'll be paid in such lovely scrip, too. Just don't try using it somewhere else.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Hence, crypto.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 22 hours ago

I'd buy that for a dollar.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

You want Night City? This is how you get Night City...

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

We should finally eat the disgusting rich.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 day ago (10 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago

Oh they know exactly what kind of cities they want to build. The wealthy have been wanting their slaves back since 1865.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Literally Snow Crash, each burb is a independent corpocity state

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 day ago

government officials ending every phrase with, "brought to you by carls jr" is getting more real of a likelihood all the time.

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy.

Why do I read this as incel rape cities?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Slave Plantations?

[–] [email protected] 212 points 2 days ago (10 children)

Those already have a name - company town.

They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.

[–] [email protected] 135 points 2 days ago (2 children)

But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.

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[–] [email protected] 185 points 2 days ago (14 children)

A city run by a corporation is the opposite of a "freedom city"

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Freedom Cities, even the name is a lie.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 days ago (11 children)

In September of last year, the podcast Behind the Bastards did a two part series on right wing blogger Curtis Yarvin, his connections to Peter Theil, and his influence on JD Vance. I highly recommend these episodes for anyone who wants to know where this is all headed.

Yarvin has, for years, pushed the notion of RAGE (retire all government employees), and his dark enlightenment movement centers on dismantling democracy and installing a neo-feudalistic system of government in which oligarchs rule as kings.

This is not some crazy new proposal that will be ignored by the people in power. This is the endgame. The oligarchs and right wing fascists Trump has surrounded himself with have been pushing this for years, just waiting for their moment.

If you don't think this is a big deal, then you probably won't realize until it's too late.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Cyberpunk 2025

[–] [email protected] 98 points 2 days ago (3 children)

“ 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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