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"JONATHAN LANSNER January 5, 2024 at 9:10 a.m. California housing costs ran 60% above the US norm in 2022, by this math" .. I sense a pattern
Scotia, CA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotia,_California It is a “company town”, but it is not incorporated. You can also find a company town near you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_company_towns_in_the_U...
Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity.
This is not communism per se, but perhaps even worse in some aspects.
Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world.
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There's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future
Ah. Let's generously say that did happen and it works out for him at some indeterminate point in the future. Would you then consider the frozen and completely inactive head disconnected from a living body vital for sustaining the living processes of the head of Walt Disney still living in the present? If this thread is to be completely pedantic, we have to go all the way here.
Trying to imagine the freedom one feels when working in a corporate that owns the town one lives in. Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity. This is not communism per se , but perhaps even worse in some aspects. Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz
There's a lot to be said for building little villages all over the north state to support the amount of forestry that needs doing these days, which is quite a bit. The state says it wants to do preventative cutting and burning on a million acres per year but so far has been doing something between .1% and 1% of that goal. There's no money in it, so the state would just have to pour in the funds. But that's no differe…
"JONATHAN LANSNER January 5, 2024 at 9:10 a.m. California housing costs ran 60% above the US norm in 2022, by this math" .. I sense a pattern
California housing costs are a direct result of major California cities doing absolutely everything in their power to avoid building enough housing.
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You're going to have to explain that one. My first guess is you mean his legacy but a man's legacy is not the same as his life.
There's a popular rumor that he froze his head in anticipation of being revived in the future