Unregulated tech tests: Thiel, Altman and co want Freedom Cities

https://www.heise.de/en/news/Unregulated-tech-tests-Thiel-Altman-and-co-want-Freedom-Cities-10309862.html

5•antfarm•5h ago

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_benton•5h ago

I sorta want to see them happen as an experiment.

antfarm•3h ago

You would like to watch yet another step towards the dismantling of representative democracy in the United States as an experiment? There is enough happening right now that demands your attention.

_benton•3h ago

What an incredibly bad faith response to someone simply expressing their desire to see an idea experimentally validated. That's really the only way we can know if a political system is viable.

Eg. both communism and socialism seemed plausible until multiple independent experiments proved otherwise. It would be interesting to see how a modern day laissez faire city-state would fair.

jqpabc123•2h ago

What an incredibly bad faith response to something that has already been tried with less than glowing success.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

_benton•1h ago

That isn't even close to being the same thing.

jqpabc123•58m ago

You're right --- what the article describes and what proponents have in mind is actually more extreme and far worse.

But just like in "company towns", corporate overlords are the only real authority as they proclaim their independence yet still mooch services fron the surrounding area as needed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera

thesuperbigfrog•3h ago

It seems that every generation thinks they can build a utopia city based on highly held ideals:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_utopian_commu...

Most utopia cities were founded by religious groups. Freedom Cities will likely be more of the same.

jqpabc123•1h ago

Most utopia cities were founded by religious groups. Freedom Cities will likely be more of the same.

Cities founded and controlled by corporations will likely subscribe to the same religion as the rest of corporate America --- money and greed. Anything else will be purely to entertain and pacify the conscripts.

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