I was looking for a tweet on this so I could stay on topic in this thread, but it's really hard to search X without an account. Anyways, tech bros were quietly buying up land on Solano County (generally considered one of the nine Bay Area counties, but it's on the outskirts of the Bay Area, and best known as a place you drive through on your way to Sacramento) to build a tech bro city. Called variously "California Forever" or the "East Solano Plan", they were buying up farmland with the plan to build a tech bro utopia city, but they needed to get a countywide vote to change the rules on development, and when it looked like they did not have the support of the voters, they withdrew their plans. They still own a bunch of land but it is legally farmland, so they'll probably keep trying. It's another example of tech bros trying to redefine cities to suit their corporate interests.
Humans have always tried to dominate the land and make of it what we will. There are scores of planned communities, a la a Reston, Virginia, all over this country. What kept them from being cities in the middle of nowhere was the infrastructure. But now that solar is available on a mass scale, and work and education can be mimicked on line, the costs go way down. And now that we're living in the New Gilded Age, these guys have, literally, money to burn. These tech bros have much to be derisive of, but this isn't it. If I had that kind of money, I think I'd be very interested in trying to plan a 22nd century city.
everything I’ve read about Peter Thiel suggests that he’s not building these for you and me. He’s building them to keep you and me out. That’s the source of my derision.
I don’t suppose he was actually making a nuanced point about the allies supporting the USSR and thereby working with Stalin, a nuanced point that this tweet is taking it of context.
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My wife and I finally got around to watching the first season of Severance and boy howdy does that seem relevant to this conversation.