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Are you ready to live in "freedom cities"?

Asked by ragingloli (52380points) 4 hours ago

To be brief: “Freedom cities” are essentially dystopian modern techno-feudalist company towns owned, operated, and controlled by corporations, where the owner class is “free” of laws and regulations, and its inhabitants “free” of legal protections or civil rights, which the oligarchs are currently lobbying Agent Krasnov to authorise and support.
https://gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510

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RedDeerGuy1's avatar

No. Sounds like the Matrix. Or a ranch that farms humans. I’m not ready with humans becoming livestock.

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elbanditoroso's avatar

Like the old company towns of the 1880s through the 1930s. Awful. Employees were basically slaves always in debt to the company owner.

I can’t see how these freedom cities would operate in society. State laws would still be the overriding legal framework for most things.

Some people would like it for the ‘security’ but they give up all their rights by doing so.

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gorillapaws's avatar

If the oligarchs are going back in history to the Gilded Age to look for inspiration, they should flip back a few chapters and take a look at 1793 as well…

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Forever_Free's avatar

So Trump WANTS to build a place that is rigid and unresponsive with no ability to adapt?

Certainly is clear of the direction he is taking the US.

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