After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.

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    1 year ago

    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.