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Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
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This is end game capitalism. They have their own cities with their own laws. You are essentially forced to live and work at the same place and buy your groceries and other essentials from your employees. You’re basically an indentured servant at that moment.
Actually, this is early stage capitalism. Company towns were a thing in the late 19th and early 20th century. Government eventually stepped in, broke up the trusts and made that kind of thing a relic of a worse time.
People have forgotten their past and they're now repeating it. We've been in the second Gilded age for what - 30 years now?
Child labor was just legalized in Kansas I think and it looks like some other Republican states are trying to do the same.
This is what happens when you let the foxes run the hen house.
That was end stage capitalism.
Unions mostly defeated it after that, but then everyone forgot how bad it was and elected Thatcher and Reagan
Well, was it really unions or the bloodshed of the two world wars and fear of the world revolution?
That was when and how the forgetting started.
Exactly why Amazon been taking about building such towns for its workers. I swear if the conservatives get their way and the way things are going I see them trying to find a way legalize slavery again.
Student loans, impossible mortgages, impossible rent, healthcare tied to jobs.... I get that it's not "slavery" but still... It's a little bit slavery.
The first 4 States to ban slavery did so in 2022
Well yes but you're an indentured servant in a utopia.
Pass me the Soma. I'm already a servant. I'll take the orgies and indefinite lifespan too thanks.