Silicon Valley elites revealed as buyers of $800m of land to build utopian city
Group Flannery Associates, backed by prominent investors, quietly buy 55,000 acres of farmland in northern California
People have tried to build Utopian communities before. And it has always worked, every single time. No issues. That's why I support this.
To be fair, just because other people haven’t been able to succeed doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try. You should look at why things succeeded/failed and figure out the exact problem and the best way to solve it.
That being said, I don’t think they’re building a city that would solve problems for humanity. I believe they’re a bunch of billionaires who don’t want to live with us plebs and want to build Elysium.
I figured Billionaire Refuge would be built on an island like New Zealand.
Although, if the book World War Z is anything to go by, their little utopia will be overrun by hordes of hungry climate refugees.
Critical support for the building of Rapture
Another "Galt's Gulch" like roughly the dozen that came before it. Will this one even start getting built before someone runs off with the money?
John Spartan you have been fined 1 credit for a violation of the verbal morality statute.
How long before they ban "bad language, chocolate, gasoline, uneducational toys, and anything spicy."
Public transportation here while pushing for robot taxis, Tesla loops, elsewhere and high speed rail nowhere.
M8 Hyperloop is a scam.
See the unfortunate thing is that it it's both true and not that it's a scam.
Goddard the father of modern rockets came up with this idea too while working on stuff and several others have taken to the idea. The issue generally is cost and I even knew some engineers in university that were working on a vacuum train design at the same time Musk bought the rights to the idea and made a big deal about it.
It was a scam because he didn't intend to do it but to use the excitement of the idea to get funding that he could funnel into his own wealth and stop competing business but the concept itself isn't a scam. Just Musk is and we don't ever have a real conversation about topics because humans suck.
Utopian
Bruh
This is the best summary I could come up with:
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.
The project was spearheaded by Jan Sramek, a 36-year-old former trader for the investment banking firm Goldman Sachs, and is backed by prominent Silicon Valley investors including Michael Moritz, a venture capitalist; Reid Hoffman, the co-founder of Linkedin; Laurene Powell Jobs, the founder of the philanthropic group Emerson Collective and wife of Steve Jobs; Marc Andreessen, an investor and software developer; Patrick and John Collison, the sibling co-founders of the payment processor Stripe; and the entrepreneurs Daniel Gross and Nat Friedman, the Times reported.
Flannery has purchased land from farmers for several times more than the market value and become the biggest landowners in Solano county, an area 60 miles north-west of San Francisco.
It has also been sending out opinion polls to local residents to gauge their feelings on an initiative that could appear on Solano county voter’s ballots, according to the newspaper SF Gate.
The poll also asks if residents would support the project if it was placed in an area with “bad soil that only contributes 5% of the county’s agricultural production,” according to a Facebook post from Catherine Moy, the mayor of Fairfield, the closest city to Flannery’s purchases.
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Hope they got some water rights with all that land…
Ah yes, nothing more utopian than factory towns.
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