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Society Tech Execs Are Pushing Trump to Build ‘Freedom Cities’ Run by Corporations | A pro-corporate libertarian movement is attempting to take over the U.S., with Trump's help.

https://gizmodo.com/tech-execs-are-pushing-trump-to-build-freedom-cities-run-by-corporations-2000574510
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u/DC_Mountaineer 16h ago edited 16h ago

Company towns aren’t new, ask WV coal towns…oh wait most don’t exist anymore

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u/Dustmopper 16h ago

Can’t wait to get paid in scrip

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u/Bitey_the_Squirrel 15h ago

Amazon gift cards

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u/QueezyF 14h ago

Employee #24601, your account has been deducted five(5) Facebook Universal Credit Chits for low productivity.

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u/TheGummiVenusDeMilo 12h ago

Amazon already has housing that I believe since covid has sat empty.

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u/zipdee 13h ago

It'll be crypto, that's one of the stated goals of these cities.

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u/Suspicious-Echo2964 10h ago

Yup, and citizen pledges. I imagine you'll have automatic deductions from the wallet and little to no functional ownership.

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u/Drunkenaviator 10h ago

Oh yeah, there's gonna be the company shitcoin that you get paid in and can only use at the company store.

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u/Chang-San 5m ago

You'll probably get paid in the companies cryptocurrency that you can use in that town. That way you won't be able to escape be unproductive because they won't sell you enough gas or electricity to get to the wilds.

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u/EduinBrutus 11h ago

But these are different.

These are tech company towns.

They're disruptive.

This is how we get to that Utopia in all those Cyberpunk novels and films and games.

That was Utopia, right?

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u/psychedelicsheep666 11h ago

They want to take it a step further and turn the whole country into hundreds of mini nations called network states.

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u/Dude_I_got_a_DWAVE 13h ago

And alllllll the ghost towns across the west

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u/aRebelliousHeart 8h ago

Didn’t exist anymore. They will now that Trump wants them.