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LANDLORDS COWER IN FEAR OF MAOTRAIN
"that train pic is too powerful lmao" - u/Cadende
Again. 
This "Galt's Gulch" shit has been tried over and over and over again, including in Puerto Rico after the big hurricane a few years back. Each time, it typically fails before the first structures are built and the griftiest grifter runs off with the money. Because Enlightened Self Interest, praise Rand. 
What basic necessity of modern civilization will they fuck up or straight up forget this time? In New Hampshire it was garbage collection, in Chile it was basic sewage sanitation. I hope it’s something new and funny
"Not building structures out of smelting slag just because it's the most economic material"
I'm praying for roads. Like they're gonna make a hyperloop that works even worse than elsewhere or they're gonna make some sort of weird privatized solution to asphalt that just fucks up the paving immediately
Reminds me of the story with the roaming bears in a city that did some weird libertarian policy/program. There is a book about it called a "Libertarian walks into a Bear" Not sure if the books is any good but the real story is funny (or a bit unsettling) if you know about it.
Oh, I know that one.
The "Galt's Gulches" I mentioned were all attempts to start brand-new colonial fever dreams in a vacant area, and pretty much none of them got past the financing phase before the most Enlightened Self-Interested One ran off with the money.
Selling NFTs?
Critical support to Gregor MacGregor in his struggle to financially ruin settler-colonialists
THE CHINESE BUILD GHOST CITIES BECAUSE THEY ARE STUPID AND WANT THE WORLD TO THINK THEY’RE SUCCESSFUL
Wow… Elon Mungus wants to buy a bunch of empty land to create Brain Genius Colony? As long as there no homeless people, sign me up! Live in the pod? Well, if it’s designed by Mungus… it can’t be that bad unlike GYNA!
I would love it if a sensible city would be planed, but I doubt that this is what will happen.
There will be no public transport and everyone will be forced to drive Teslas on autopilot 
https://www.inforadio.de/dossier/2019/wmr---mobilitaet-in-berlin/platz-da-daten.html
Has some information about percentages for settlement areas, traffic areas and vegetation including rivers for Berlin.
With the given numbers of acres and using Berlin numbers they could create up to 180k plots of potential spaces. With 3-7million population and medium high rise (~4 floors) and that includes parks, public transport, regular transport and quite a bit of vegetation as well as ways to and from the city.
Though of course this doesn't include any change in material conditions but only the ownership of the land which was already there. The 800 million were paid for the rights within the social relations to do all that, but the actual labour and the infrastructure costs are something that they likely won't bear.
This of course means this project could have many reasons, but a part of them will be speculative. However I lean with the others who expect this to not work out or end up in scams.
I wonder if there's a way to effectively short this project.
Berliners love to hate their public transportation, and its infrastructure is kinda crap compared to places like Amsterdam or Copenhagen (it helps that the Netherlands and Denmark both do not have a car industry i guess), but i can 100% guarantee that AnCapopolis will have nothing even remotely comparable to Berlin's subway and train system or its density of parks, but will instead feature 10 times as many parking lots as Berlin. Like every Amnerikan pipe dream city it's in the middle of a fucking desert so there will be no rivers either and let's not even get started on how much the clubs and bars and restaurants there will suck compared to Berlin, or how atrociously low their numbers of hot transbians will be.
There were some people who tried building a governmental body without taxes. They failed so spectacularly that they had to throw it away and start over. And their most agreed upon takeaway was that taxes were inevitable. They then created such a successful state apparatus that generations later they were essentially worshiped as deities, even by the classes who were not represented by the state. Nowadays, the state civil religion refers to them as The Founding Fathers.
A body without taxes is like an ancap reading of deleuze right?
Lmao
If they had kept going without taxes, they would’ve been chased out of America by bears
We already know how this will turn out: Half of the city is going to get bogged down in never ending lawsuits from fucking eachother over, and the other half is going to get eaten by bears.
Remember when they were baselessly claiming that the Chinese government was behind this to spy on Travis Air Force Base? Wonder if those “journalists” will face any consequences for their rabid racism
They will be rewarded with a Pulitzer
Dollar store ass Night City
night city is supposed to be san francisco right? That means this place is probably the dump outside night city
Nah Night City is literally a private city by the bay area but not actually San Fran or anything
On the upside the founder of Night City got got so let's hope the same holds true for these fucks.
Bioshock but boring
Biosnore? Bloviatslumber?
I listened to an interview with andreesen once, and that dude is dumb as fucking rocks. I understand how llms work better than this dude
15,000 per acre sounds unusually cheap, especially for California. That's about $10 million per square mile.
It is even cheap for bad land.
Night City off Wish
grabs popcorn
What again? Do you think they learned their lessons from Bear City, or will it fail in the exact same way?
