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This headline screams non-article. I don't know how anyone who is not at least a billionare hopes to make any sweeping changes (let alone a utopia) in any conte
by Arbalest 8y ago
This headline screams non-article. I don't know how anyone who is not at least a billionare hopes to make any sweeping changes (let alone a utopia) in any context beyond a couple thousand people.
- Retra 8y agoYeah, for a million you could probably get a really nice house for one family, and a good bit saved up so they don't have to worry too much about things. That's a long way from any kind of utopian society... Especially when you're building it from scratch out in a desert.
- CyberDildonics 8y agoThe article says that he has spent 300 million dollars and bought 67,000 acres of land.
- Arbalest 8y agoLand isn't automatically useful/valuable. It does need to be developed. If you took the land area of a city, and then went out bush and asked how much it cost for the same area, it would be pretty much peanuts. Yet land prices in cities are orders of magnitude higher. The land is really only the start, and I'm pretty damn sure you will need an order of magnitude more money than that to develop it into something usable by modern standards.
- CyberDildonics 8y agoThis is textbook moving goal posts. He has obviously spent plenty of money and didn't spend all that on the land. I'm not if you are really trying to say he spent 300 million on land, but that isn't what the article implies.