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Creating a Utopian City Is Harder Than Tech Billionaires Think
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bob_wiley@lemmy.world 1 year ago
[deleted]pavnilschanda@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Apparently “utopian communities” are actually intentional communities following a utopian model and they don’t like to be referred to as “utopian communities” because it’s considered prejorative.
Here’s a list of utopian communities in the US, btw: en.wikipedia.org/…/List_of_American_utopian_commu…
Holyginz@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yea those aren’t utopian. They can call themselves whatever they want but it doesn’t make it true.
NegativeInf@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Utopia means place that doesn’t exist. Gimme a Eutopia.
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It’s really hard to exploit everyone for personal gain and still call it a utopia.
dojan@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Well no shit. A billionaire is evil per definition. I wouldn’t expect an evil person to know how (or want) to create a utopia. Any ideals they’d come up with ought be heavily scrutinised.
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 1 year ago
These tech billionaires don’t understand what utopia really is, for starters.
Because if they understand, they know utopia cannot exist…
Shapillon@lemmy.world 1 year ago
And since their billionaire interests are at such odds with ours, they might be uniquely unqualified for that task…
9thSun@midwest.social 1 year ago
Idk the Saudis seem hell bent on creating them
Goodbyeworld@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I keep yelling “on screen!” at my wall, but nothing happens.
CADmonkey@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Everything is harder than tech billionaires think. Billionaires are almost completely helpless.
FarceMultiplier@lemmy.ca 1 year ago
They imagine this place where only rich people live and work, but don’t think to the next step of who does the things that rich people don’t care to do…so they’ll bring in poor people and then eventually complain bitterly that they either can’t get what they want done at poverty wages, or that their local exclusive society is falling apart.
In short: there is no valid reason for the ultra-rich to exist. The rising tide doesn’t lift all boats: it sinks the boat that have been tethered to the sea floor.