They put a lot of money into a town that might sink or flood into a swamp.
I feel like this describes a high number of US towns and cities.
Scotia, California is owned by a New York investment firm
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#52There'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…
Scotia is in the coastal redwoods, these trees are largely immune to forest fires(don't confuse them with giant sequoia)
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#53> Most people on the 101 drive right by.
Yup
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#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
In the UK a lot of work remains in copyright for the life of the creator (plus 70 years)
If the creator never dies, then the work doesn't go into public domain.
I could see that as a Disney strategy.
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#55Trying 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
It's the opposite of communism. Under communism, the workers own the means of production and all the other assets (at least, that's the theory; reality doesn't quite work out that way!). In a company town, a company owns it all; the workers own nothing. Imagine the power the company has over individuals. > done in the name of ... the free world. Where are company towns described as being done 'in the name of' the fre…
In the cold war environment the term "free world" was linked inextricably to capitalism. This had great benefits to US living standards in the first few decades (as the US could utilise global resources more than other countries, just taking them with trinkets rather than guns like in colonial time), but as other countries caught up US standards of living started to plateau, and power concentrated on smaller and smaller parts, this time cannibalising US citizens still maintaining it was the "free world"
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#56Earlier quoted context omitted.
California housing costs are a direct result of major California cities doing absolutely everything in their power to avoid building enough housing.
And also the fact that California is a very desirable place to live.
Yes, demand is high, supply is constrained. In a free market supply would increase to meet demand, but it doesn't, so prices increase. This is econ-101.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
I mean, California is larger than some countries. There is plenty of space but we all know that that space isn't equally valued. It's not just enough to be in an area with decent weather, you gotta be close to the hotspot hubs of SF/SD/LA. And that's where "shortages" start to come. Pareto principle at work. Also coastland is a minority of land in CA. Go out to the east in So Cal and it's all burning hot desert, with…
Its true, but the land that is available, like I said, is still being underutilized. Look a Japan, which is in a very similar situation near the major metropolitan areas: very little land where people can actually settle, and yet housing is relatively affordable for most. Its not an accident, they're just better at managing urban density--and Tokyo especially has the benefit of a fantastically complex and well manage…
Greater-Tokyo has a population density about 15 times more than Greater-LA. If LA had Tokyo density you could fit pretty much the entire US population in it.
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You're living the libertarian dream. No pesky government getting in the way, just free association between you and the person who owns your means of life.
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It's the opposite of communism. Under communism, the workers own the means of production and all the other assets (at least, that's the theory; reality doesn't quite work out that way!). In a company town, a company owns it all; the workers own nothing. Imagine the power the company has over individuals. > done in the name of ... the free world. Where are company towns described as being done 'in the name of' the fre…
Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men. Communism is the exact opposite.
Quite sure there was plenty of exploitation in communist countries.