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Comment on The Tech Billionaires Soft-Launching Secession in California — If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state

Arete@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Buying land in rural California to potentially incorporate a new town is not remotely comparable to seceding from the United States.

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LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Company towns are nothing if not the most American thing a businessman can do!

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- echodot@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s hardly American, company towns they were all the rage in Victorian England, and many of them still exist today. The problem is when they tried to pay you in company scrip. This has now been outlawed so now so it’s not really a problem.
  
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  - LWD@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Stealing ideas from England is the second most American thing you can do
    
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