Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think::The man who created Sandy Springs, Georgia, has some advice for those who want to a build a metropolis in northern California.

  • FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca
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    1 year ago

    They imagine this place where only rich people live and work, but don’t think to the next step of who does the things that rich people don’t care to do…so they’ll bring in poor people and then eventually complain bitterly that they either can’t get what they want done at poverty wages, or that their local exclusive society is falling apart.

    In short: there is no valid reason for the ultra-rich to exist. The rising tide doesn’t lift all boats: it sinks the boat that have been tethered to the sea floor.

  • bob_wiley@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Doesn’t everyone learn in school that utopias can’t exist.

    Joe loves dogs and hates cats, Susie loves cats and hates dogs… utopia over.

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        1 year ago

        I don’t know what this means. What is a utopian model? If they don’t like people using that name, why do they call it that?

        I tried searching, but various things came up, including utopian socialism. Since the city in the article mentioned hiring private companies to do everything, I can only assume that’s not it.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Well no shit. A billionaire is evil per definition. I wouldn’t expect an evil person to know how (or want) to create a utopia. Any ideals they’d come up with ought be heavily scrutinised.

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    These tech billionaires don’t understand what utopia really is, for starters.

    Because if they understand, they know utopia cannot exist…

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      1 year ago

      And since their billionaire interests are at such odds with ours, they might be uniquely unqualified for that task…

  • CADmonkey@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Everything is harder than tech billionaires think. Billionaires are almost completely helpless.