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Tech Execs Are Pushing to Build 'Freedom Cities' Run by Corporations

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I'm curious what regulations they want to be free from? I also imagine that these will run into the same problems as no-kill shelters. Sounds great, but with limited admission, they succeed because they don't have to deal with the problems of regular cities.

> what regulations they want to be free from?

All those except their own.

The old concept of the city state or polis [0] helps somewhat in understanding this model of granularity.

From my ignorant reading of classics, they're basically never at peace with each other for long.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ancient_Greek_cities

Let's assume it goes ahead for sake of argument. Will they be like a giant HOA, or a place of resident freedom? My guess is more like an HOA. Something more like little Singapores, With occasional oopsies from tech experiments that blow up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

And that too. Company towns are usually built around a resource like a mine or something, whereas city states arise at natural confluences. A company setup has only one show in town and whoever controls that is boss. Building out in the desert is Red Alert command sims stuff IMHO. and probably works if you've a nuclear reactor and a ring of tesla-coils around the whole perimeter.

Could be built around a data center.

Yeah, if I’m libertarian at all, I’m much more homestead on a few hundred acres libertarian than like Choose you’re own HOA libertarian

No, you're thinking of Company Towns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

Original reporting https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-leg...

Seems like it would be more like a revival of the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

Company towns, indentured servitude. It's the New Gilded Age

” Where will America’s new “Freedom Cities” be built? It seems quite possible that the Network Staters want to build them in our national parks. On its website, the Freedom City Coalition notes that 28 percent of U.S. land is “federally owned and ready for innovative development.” It doesn’t specify what kind of federal land is “ready” for this “innovation,” but most of the government land that isn’t used for farming and energy development is used for wildlife conservation.”

Why not just say it? Cults

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