This is why being a philanthropist doesn’t reform a billionaire. They’re making decisions for the rest of us using our money.
Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Sam Altman among billionaires investing in 'Freedom City' to be built on Greenland
Submitted 3 weeks ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
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roofuskit@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
psx_crab@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
The money still have to come from somewhere, either they get it from stock or from investment/project like these.
IronBird@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
keep following that chain…where do you think the $ going into the stock market comes from?
ultimately, the entire thing hinges on underpaying people for their labor
dumbass@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Yeah… “fReEdOm CiTy” .
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
“Finally free from the evils of democracy and rule of law!”
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Free to build the data centers necessary to control an army of terminators; to genocide the proles once capitalism no longer requires their labour.
Like, I’m not even joking. I have zero doubt whatsoever that is the final solution in the minds of psychopaths like Thiel or Altman.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
Sounds like Elon rhetoric to me
Lemminary@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
These assholes have worse writing than an uninspired comics writer.
Retro_unlimited@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Company town.
You get housing and food, but your a SLAVE forever!
ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
What a bunch of lunatics
ShinkanTrain@lemmy.ml 3 weeks ago
A city free of the tyranny of labor laws and the age of consent
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 2 weeks ago
So a fascist wants to invade Greenland. These ghouls want to capitalize on that to build some tech bro dystopia shit. I think we know what we need to call these ghouls. Fascist ghouls.
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
This is no coincidence. The fascist is a puppet for the ghouls.
OshagHennessey@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Anyone still supporting US corporations is supporting the machine bringing fascism to the world.
Jimbel@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
True! Unfortunately amazon, microsoft windows, google are so deeply integrated in the whole society of a lot of countries sobthat a lot of people contribute to fascist powers.
Sanctus@anarchist.nexus 3 weeks ago
I just need these guys to lose. To lose as hard as they have ensured everyone else does.
ThePowerOfGeek@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Maybe all the shitheads will move over there and the rest of us can get to work on clean night up the country. Although that would mean the poor Greenlanders being drowned out with shithead invaders, which is extremely unfair on them.
jonne@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Just shows that the idea that Bill Gates was one of the good ones was just PR. There are no good billionaires.
logicbomb@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Somebody said that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a way for him to funnel money to his children without paying taxes, and that the disease fighting stuff is just a side benefit.
tomiant@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
They have no interest in living a good life for themselves, the main purpose is always to lord over others and stomp on their faces out of sexually sadistic urges.
CubitOom@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Should be required reading for every voter
bstix@feddit.dk 2 weeks ago
All previous nvestigations and attempts at building of infrastructure on Greenland has given the same results: It is not feasible.
This idea of building a biodome city is like people in the 1800s dreaming of flying to the moon using steam engines and gas blimps.
There’s good reason why Greenland/Denmark/China has already given up for now on building the much wanted airport hub and mineral extraction etc. There’s good reasons why USA abandoned their nuclear silos there. At the moment it will cost insane amounts of money if it’s even possible.
Maybe in 50-100 years when the ice has melted, then we can investigate once again to find out if it’s even possible then or if the assumed bedrock under the ice is actually just a pile of mud.
The current knowledge and technology can’t do this in any way that will make any economical sense in comparison to what that amount of money can actually create elsewhere right now.
If the billionaires want to throw all their money at it, sure, go ahead. It’s not going to work, but at least their money will change hands in the process.
lemmie689@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
bdot@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
wait wait wait…
is THIS the real reason Trump wants to take over Greenland? because the cool kids are all going there, and they didn’t invite him?
hahaha! what a turd. old Donny Nofriends. so pathetic.
T156@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Probably less that and more that he was asked to/promised something if he did.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Sounds like they are all so dumb they think that Greenland movie is a documentary they want to make come true.
heyWhatsay@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Here’s my tinfoil hat hot take:
Considering the development of hypersonic missiles, Greenland would do little to defend/protect during modern warfare.
But the location combined with low population, thermal power sources, would be ideal for development for an attempt to create a future climate change shelter. If a select group wanted to keep cool on their own big island as the rest of the world burned, this is how I would expect them to plan it out.
deacon@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Sure, but go from that thought…
To trump.
Kushan@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
He’s a means to an end for those that want to do whatever the fuck they like. Can him the smartest man you’ve ever met, throw him some pocket change and give him a fake trophy, he’ll do whatever you tell him.
Formfiller@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Because they need a place to rape children while stripping American’s of their freedom
boolean_sledgehammer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I’m all for this. It will fail spectacularly, and hopefully it will do so with all of them in it.
ameancow@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As a US citizen who will suffer under the embargo the rest of the world will set up around US trade, I will kind of miss things like toothpaste and medicine.
Squizzy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bill’s wife left him because of hos trips on the lolita express so he is full mask off now. Cunt
Routhinator@startrek.website 2 weeks ago
What is this, the prequel to Chrysalids?
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 weeks ago
Now if only there was some way to make the weather there a bit more pleasant…
zd9@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
OHHH this all makes sense suddenly. Curtis fucking Yarvin the dweeb-villain himself is behind this. Everyone should be aware of the technofeudalist plan to destroy America as we know it and turn it into a network state with monarch-like ultra-authoritarian “CEOs” of each country. Oh and btw Peter Thiel is fully bought into this (there are dozens of verified comms between them), and Thiel owns Vance. So when Trump dies, this is their ultimate plan.
Check out Prospera in Honduras, one early example of these states.
Nomad@infosec.pub 3 weeks ago
Sounds about right. They know climate change is coming and Greenland will be prime real estate in a few decades.
zd9@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t think climate change is the primary driver, since they won’t even be alive to see the worst affects of it. Don’t get me wrong it’s going to make everything worse even within 10 years, but it’s not turning Greenland into some habitable, farmable landmass in the span of these technofascists’ lifetimes. God I hate this.
People should read The Ministry for the Future to learn how they dealt with climate criminals as more and more people suffered and died due to climate change in the mid-future.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I see it as making Greenland into prime real estate by causing climate change. /s