A Billionaire Wants to Reinvent Appalachia with a Utopian City, And the Plan Is Bigger Than Anyone Expected
A Billionaire Wants to Reinvent Appalachia with a Utopian City, And the Plan Is Bigger Than Anyone Expected
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Does the utopia come with UBI and universal healthcare or will the poors still need to gig it up not to starve?
He is not the only one, and they very much made their plans public a good while ago. It’s only an Utopia if you are rich, else you are little more than a slave. They don’t say that outright, but those are conservative led projects.
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freedom_Cities)
“At the core of this vision lies a proposed economic framework Lore calls equitism. In this model, land would be owned collectively by the city rather than privately hoarded. Individuals and businesses could own buildings and enterprises, while land value increases would cycle back into public services such as schools, transit, and social programs. Supporters see equitism as a potential antidote to extreme wealth inequality and runaway real estate speculation that plague many modern cities.”
I’d like to hear more before I make my usual cynical comment.
“The development team said that the defining values of Telosa were openness, fairness, and inclusivity…” – so, a WOKE city?? Uh oh, never happening then…
Ah yes, the utopia called “Company Town”
There is a reason Appalachia has no major cities within its limits and that reason is there are too many steep mountains and windy, unnavigable rivers.
The major city closest to Appalachia is Pittsburgh. It was built at the confluence of three major, navigable rivers. It also has hundreds of steep, hilly streets.
There is little chance of someone overcoming Appalachia’s geography. The cost is far too high.
How many bunker houses do they own in this utopian city?
Like the famous Pullman Utopian village in Chicago. It worked so well.
Sounds like another “line”
ok apartment complexes and trees and a walking city, thats nice. The bipyramid is pretty weird – maybe its just art… but the Fing helicopter elevators, wtf is this.
Billionaires cant get over the fact that normal people have to actually interact with each other and take Public Transportation. They always imagine cities with 3d tunnels, individual pod train, or now helicopter elevators to get places. I cant take this remotely seriously anymore – not that it was ever that serious
Hahaha every picture is on a bright sunny summer day. Okay now show February.
So…… A ground based ***Elysium? Yep… ok…..***
Watoga city of the future!
Ah yes, Appalachia. Where the locals, whose families have been there for centuries at this point, are famously super receptive to outsiders coming in and changing their way of life and redeveloping their land. That should go well.
Billionaires need to be banished from earth.
They spelt Dystopia wrong.
> At the core of this vision lies a proposed economic framework Lore calls equitism. In this model, land would be owned collectively by the city rather than privately hoarded. Individuals and businesses could own buildings and enterprises, while land value increases would cycle back into public services such as schools, transit, and social programs. Supporters see equitism as a potential antidote to extreme wealth inequality and runaway real estate speculation that plague many modern cities.
See, this is why it’s important for people to take social science classes and why I always get annoyed when tech bro proclaim them useless. This motherfucker is so stupid he thinks he invented socialism.
If those are renders of his “vision” he should go visit the area at least once. The landscape will never be that flat.
Can’t wait to be part of the beautiful city known as District 12
This is a perfect idea! Since we’ve solved all other socio-economic problems we might as well!!
/s
Feudalism 2.0. Yeehaw edition.
So…Elysium?
Another Pullman town? Hell no. We don’t want another gilded age.
Or maybe we leave nature the fuck alone for once. This is utterly unnecessary.
A pedophile wants what!?!?!
🎶Come on down to Business Town, you might just meet John Galt🎶
I will apply if there are IQ and medical prerequisites. Another selling point would be if it is heavily guarded gate community.
No fn riff raff allowed (which i probably am).
A billionaire shouldn’t exist
This is is a tech oligarchy. Sure at first citizenship will be free. But gradually you’ll get paywalled from different life services. Calling the police will need a subscription. Then before you know it using the sidewalks will have a monthly service fee. All of it going to the oligarch. The last time you had rich people establishing an oligarchy the North and South went to war.
If he could just pay his taxes and if people who lived in those areas elected people who weren’t grifters they wouldn’t need this.
And if they could read this they would be very upset.
Billionaire should be renamed to the original Robber Baron designation
I thought emperor’s New groove was just a movie though!
Does said Billionaire shed the bulk of their wealth in the process? If not, not interested.
Appalachia is pretty big thing to be reinvented by something as small as a city. It keeps going pretty far north and south, with a whole lot of up and down the whole way.
And the Technofeudalism begins
“A billionaire wants”… Man, I don’t give a flying fuck what a billionaire wants. It’s bad. It’s always bad.
Billionaires and utopia are contradictory terms.
Unless.. they meant utopia for THEM.
What a novel idea that Appalachia has never heard of before.
Will this prospective *company town* pay in *scrip*, too, perchance?