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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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Where do you get the impression this is built "for the ultra-rich"? Why would they be taking public transport over their personal jets and private cars? Why would they live in an urban area with tens of thousands of other residents instead of their personal mansions on acreage? This is definitely an investment for upper-middle to upper class residents.
As for farmland, article itself says "bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production". When you need housing, housing needs to go somewhere.
Your government isn't going to build the cities the climate needs, if tech investors want to with their own cash I say go for it.
While I don't fully disagree with you, these towns being funded by the ultra-rich, usually by people who already have shady business practices, are looking awfully like company towns. Amazon's already trying to build company-provided housing near a lot of their hubs, which is bad in that now your healthcare AND your shelter are directly tied to your employment. Imagine if they get their way with building a whole micro-city that runs on that idea - where every last bit of wealth an employee might spend goes STRAIGHT back to your company. Their utilities get dealt with by Amazon-built power and water plants. Their food is provided by Amazon grocery stores or deliveries. Your healthcare is provided by Amazon, and your housing is at the whim of your employer. All of this is provided at jacked-up prices, of course, so you're effectively just a debt slave until you die or the company decides to kick you to the curb.
It's being built by an investment firm though, doesn't look to be company housing, just looks like an investment to me.
I get that impression from this little thing called the title of the post
Didn't make it past the title huh
History.
Right, why think critically and make an intelligent argument when you can just hand-wave "history" lol
Said the guy who hears "wealthy consortium of capitalists" and thinks "wow save me daddies," lul.
Whatever you say strawman, keep up with your scorched earth policy of gatekeeping who's allowed to fight climate change.