• Vampire [any]@hexbear.net
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    People have tried to build Utopian communities before. And it has always worked, every single time. No issues. That’s why I support this.

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      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.

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        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.

  • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    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? debord-tired

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    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.”

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    Public transportation here while pushing for robot taxis, Tesla loops, elsewhere and high speed rail nowhere.

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        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.