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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year ago

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@[email protected] to [email protected] • 1 year ago
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    37•1 year ago

    What the hell is a “private city”?

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      5•1 year ago

      Company Towns on a larger scale

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      13•1 year ago

      People are quoting sci-fi examples but they have been tried (and many failed) in the past. They are cities built, owned and operated by a corporation like Ford with Fordlandia in Brazil. Rent? Shops? All company-run.

      Technically Disney has their own special district in Florida and have a lot of Government-like powers over it.

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        5•1 year ago

        Oh so it’s a company town?

        Round here we learned what do do to them. We fucking kill you if you try.

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          4•1 year ago

          Good on you guys, corpofascist bullshit shouldn’t be tolerated.

          As for Disney and DeSantis fighting it out over each other’s bullshit and the special district, “let them fight” comes to mind.

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        1•1 year ago

        Do people live there on a permanent basis though or does it just run a commercial enterprise?

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          1•1 year ago

          Fordlandia failed but that was the idea: work, live, and spend your money there.

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      11•1 year ago

      Dunno, imagined something like Kowloon Walled City.

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        9•1 year ago

        Fascinating. Sounds like a shit place to live and and an awesome place to visit.

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          2•1 year ago

          Sadly it was torn down once it’s enclave status ceased, but if you want to see how it could have looked like from the inside Stray has a very similar atmosphere.

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          2•1 year ago

          I think they already tore it down.

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        3•1 year ago

        Or something like Rapture XD

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      32•1 year ago

      Bioshock, but instead of getting problematic superpowers you just rent everything

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        7•1 year ago

        Or maybe those corporate boroughs in Snow Crash.

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