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I’m not sure if you’re American but I’m English, we were educated on the great depression in the US but also, for example on our industrial revolution and how mass protest and strikes (mostly focused on the UK) have improved laws, working conditions and so on, how the suffragettes fought for women’s rights etc. We weren’t taught that capitalism is the only option - though we weren’t given too much on communism I don’t think we have the same mass hysteria about communism or socialism as seems usual in the US.
I think that billionaires could build these places… They have the money. Towns maybe. In the UK businesses already built towns, eg Saltaire. Cults build towns, don’t they? They could entice, bribe, threaten enough people to live there, but it wouldn’t work in the end. They do build or at least grow company towns - look at Microsoft or the big tech firms in silicon valley. A country/state can’t be run like a company in the long run so its doomed to failure, but they could absolutely do it or pay others to do it and make it look good for a while.
Ah fair, the capitalist propaganda is definitely more intense over here, but nowhere in the anglosphere is safe from it
But to answer your question, a billionaire can build a compound, but they’re literally incapable of building a town. A town requires people, it’s made up of webs of interconnected people. If you plop a few thousand people somewhere, they organize themselves.
If a billionaire built a compound and set up some farms, some infrastructure, and then subsidized the cost of people moving there, they could easily form a town. But that’s not enough - you can’t become a billionaire without a compulsive need to stand at the top.
Let’s talk company towns - basically you have a resource, and to that end a company builds the infrastructure to develop it. They set up a monopoly on trade, and basically enslave people once they’re there
How do they maintain control? Control the food and travel in and out. But still, people tend to rise up when they feel injustice - you need guards for the day to day, and response teams for riots and mutiny
Here’s the thing… Consultants told doomer billionaires that if you want to be a feudal lord, you have to inspire loyalty. To make your knights feel like family - you have to invite them for family dinner and make them absolutely certain that if they die in your service, you’ll support their family
Instead, they asked about explosive collars and biometric locks on food storage
Billionaires can’t build societies. Not city states, not even company towns - if there’s not someone ready to enforce their claim of ownership, they die.
By their very nature - if they could share, they wouldn’t be a billionaire. They would live in the highest possible luxury, but they wouldn’t be billionaires… They are mentally unwell by definition
I’m not sure if you’re American but I’m English, we were educated on the great depression in the US but also, for example on our industrial revolution and how mass protest and strikes (mostly focused on the UK) have improved laws, working conditions and so on, how the suffragettes fought for women’s rights etc. We weren’t taught that capitalism is the only option - though we weren’t given too much on communism I don’t think we have the same mass hysteria about communism or socialism as seems usual in the US.
I think that billionaires could build these places… They have the money. Towns maybe. In the UK businesses already built towns, eg Saltaire. Cults build towns, don’t they? They could entice, bribe, threaten enough people to live there, but it wouldn’t work in the end. They do build or at least grow company towns - look at Microsoft or the big tech firms in silicon valley. A country/state can’t be run like a company in the long run so its doomed to failure, but they could absolutely do it or pay others to do it and make it look good for a while.
Ah fair, the capitalist propaganda is definitely more intense over here, but nowhere in the anglosphere is safe from it
But to answer your question, a billionaire can build a compound, but they’re literally incapable of building a town. A town requires people, it’s made up of webs of interconnected people. If you plop a few thousand people somewhere, they organize themselves.
If a billionaire built a compound and set up some farms, some infrastructure, and then subsidized the cost of people moving there, they could easily form a town. But that’s not enough - you can’t become a billionaire without a compulsive need to stand at the top.
Let’s talk company towns - basically you have a resource, and to that end a company builds the infrastructure to develop it. They set up a monopoly on trade, and basically enslave people once they’re there
How do they maintain control? Control the food and travel in and out. But still, people tend to rise up when they feel injustice - you need guards for the day to day, and response teams for riots and mutiny
Here’s the thing… Consultants told doomer billionaires that if you want to be a feudal lord, you have to inspire loyalty. To make your knights feel like family - you have to invite them for family dinner and make them absolutely certain that if they die in your service, you’ll support their family
Instead, they asked about explosive collars and biometric locks on food storage
Billionaires can’t build societies. Not city states, not even company towns - if there’s not someone ready to enforce their claim of ownership, they die.
By their very nature - if they could share, they wouldn’t be a billionaire. They would live in the highest possible luxury, but they wouldn’t be billionaires… They are mentally unwell by definition