A 1939 company town, a perpetual poverty machine:
Cost to live there is slightly more than workers' wages,
the company owns and runs everything,
including stores and the police force
Anarcho-capitalism: a political philosophy and economic theory that advocates for the abolition of centralized states in favor of stateless societies. It combines elements of anarchism and capitalism, emphasizing voluntary exchange, private property rights, and the non-aggression principle. Anarcho-capitalists argue that governments are coercive and unnecessary. They believe that all services currently provided by the state, such as law enforcement, education, and infrastructure, can be more efficiently provided by private companies in a free market
Gizmodo reports about plans those feisty billionaires are making to establish pockets of tyrannical corporate control, i.e., autonomous corporate mini-dictatorships:
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 helpA billionaire-backed push to develop libertarian enclaves in Central America is being imported back to the United States, where its proponents want to lay the groundwork for their own privately run, corporately governed cities.
A new lobbying group, dubbed the Freedom Cities Coalition, wants to convince President Trump and Congress to authorize the creation of new special development zones within the U.S. These zones would allow wealthy investors to write their own laws and set up their own governance structures which would be corporately controlled and wouldn’t involve a traditional bureaucracy. The new zones could also serve as a testbed for weird new technologies without the need for government oversight.
Wired recently reported that the Coalition was drafting congressional legislation that would allow it to establish a network of its new “cities.” One of the chief motivations for the creation of these communities is so that new “scientific” and technological development initiatives can be carried out without the need for regulatory oversight. The outlet writes:According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
The Freedom Cities Coalition is a project of NeWay Capital, a company that has been centrally involved in the development of Prospera, a private, “free market,” crypto-friendly enclave in Honduras. Prospera was made possible by a special regulatory setup, dubbed a special economic zone (or ZEDE), that was established in the country in 2013 in the wake of a U.S.-backed coup. ZEDEs allow for private actors to essentially move into geographically partitioned areas and write their own regulatory and judicial rules.
Prospera is also part of something called the “Network State,” an anarcho-capitalist ideological movement, backed by tech-billionaires, that seeks to create privately run cities with native cryptocurrencies.
Where will America’s new “Freedom Cities” be built? It seems quite possible that the Network Staters want to build them in our national parks. On its website, the Freedom City Coalition notes that 28 percent of U.S. land is “federally owned and ready for innovative development.” It doesn’t specify what kind of federal land is “ready” for this “innovation,” but most of the government land that isn’t used for farming and energy development is used for wildlife conservation.
It’s also worth noting that, in a video released during the presidential campaign, Trump openly spoke about using protected federal lands to build “Freedom Cities.”
A 1924 Company town
physically isolated from nearby towns
and from broader society
I owe my soul to the company store
Q: Apocalyptic hell or the road to utopia and universal prosperity and happiness?
