Why Tech Moguls Are Obsessed with Building Utopian Cities
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Why Tech Moguls Are Obsessed with Building Utopian Cities
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#3What a strange thing to pin on tech. Company towns have existed forever, to the point of having laws made about how they can function. Walt Disney and ford also wanted to create a utopia city. I think this is more of a rich man's hobby than anything related to tech moguls at all. Hell, some even establish their own currency https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip#Coal_company_s...
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#4Not a new obsession:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia
Also, some have recently argued that people had to be forced to live in those first cities:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hi...
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#5so why are tech moguls obsessed with building utopian cities? i don't think that question ever got answered.
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#6Not a new obsession: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordlândia Also, some have recently argued that people had to be forced to live in those first cities: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_the_Grain:_A_Deep_Hi...
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#7Because government run cities are doing a terrible job?
I'd love to live in a nice environment with services and smart people around me, it's just that most cities are quite degraded (at least here in Europe / UK).
The choice right now is between living in a nice small town / rural settings surrounded by people who got stuck in their rural hometown, or live in a city surrounded by smart people, homeless and drug dealers and terrible air quality.
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#8Utopias with big capitalist bosses are not utopias.
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#9Maybe I missed it but I'm a little surprised they didn't mention the new Innovation Zone legislation the Nevada Governor mentioned (and that was seeded by Blockchains LLC) and the broader Charter City movement (e.g. Pronomos, Charter City Institute, etc.)
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#10You can't engineer around the failings of modern society by throwing out modern society, unless you want to consign millions of people to the trash heap in the most callous way imaginable. Is it just me or are we rapidly sliding into some of the most bog standard of dystopian cyberpunk?