Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city | California (www.theguardian.com)

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[-] SirFancypants@lemmy.ca 31 points 1 year ago

"Utopian" is usually just code for "no poors allowed"

[-] Facebones@reddthat.com 8 points 1 year ago

My city is surrounded by Bible belt rural "cities are literally Satan" counties

In like 3 directions now about 20-30 minutes out are these "fine I'll build my own city with blackjack and bookers" "town centers" with residential and first floor commercial and a event area for concerts and stuff where you'll NEVER have to drive

Until you need to do literally anything other than grab a cup of coffee. 🙄

[-] fckreddit@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago

Utopia for rich is usually dystopia for regular people. I will pass..

[-] MDKAOD@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

I was tossed whether to post in futurism, late stage capitalism or, dystopia

[-] expatriado@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

the US, where building a walkable city is utopia

[-] Rogers@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I wonder what kind of authoritarian policies they will have to keep the homeless out of sight.

[-] iforgotmyinstance@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Honestly I'm just pissed that they are paying far below fair market rate for the land. 15k per acre is nothing for development in the state. Taxpayers getting ripped off.

[-] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago

The article mentions the opposite...

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