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Serfdom, rebranded as something related to high tech. And there will be enough desperate people who would fill these zones. Tata consultancies and the like hire

Serfdom, rebranded as something related to high tech. And there will be enough desperate people who would fill these zones. Tata consultancies and the like hire echelons of h1b workers from India and China and those workers may never see a green card. Moreover, once such zones get a competitive edge by extorting their employees, other companies will have to get out of business or embrace the new business model.

Frazmatazz 6y ago
A manor with boarding houses will now be an "Innovation Zone" with "Coliving Spaces".
RhodoGSA 6y ago
That, or a company like Tesla announces a new city, millions of Americans flock to it, we redevelop a sense of unity and local progress and all live happily ever after. "you're afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road."
- airstrike 6y ago
  And if Tesla goes under or faces some troubles, or for whatever reason decides to close down shop, since everyone's income is nearly perfectly correlated the city collapses all at once and the entire population is now unemployed
  - RhodoGSA 6y ago
    Definitely amplify's risk for sure. If the company went under, your whole county would go under and the government is not likely to bail them out like they would a city who had too much debt. Since you may even purchase your house on the company land, you could quite literally lose everything. Again, if the population thrives the amount of space is hyper-limited. I don't know if there'd be gentrification per say, since it'd be gentrified from the start but the populace would grow fabulously rich off both stock in the company, increased land value and general prosperity for your entire community. It also changes the incentive structure. You want you company to thrive, so your can community to thrive and vice versa.
  - alfiedotwtf 6y ago
    And Tesla being car company is the best example of this - Detroit and it’s deterioration since the fall from GM and Ford’s highs
based2 6y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota,_Aichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota,_Aichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Enterprises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Enterprises https://smartcityhub.com/technology-innnovation/the-top-ten-companies-that-build-smart-cities/ https://smartcityhub.com/technology-innnovation/the-top-ten-...
alfiedotwtf 6y ago
Funny, I alluded to this in the other thread that’s now marked a dupe. I read the article and couldn’t believe what I was reading. We are making the mistakes of the past... or to rephrase that, the lords are consolidating

Frazmatazz 6y ago

A manor with boarding houses will now be an "Innovation Zone" with "Coliving Spaces".

RhodoGSA 6y ago

That, or a company like Tesla announces a new city, millions of Americans flock to it, we redevelop a sense of unity and local progress and all live happily ever after. "you're afraid to take the first step because all you see is every negative thing 10 miles down the road."

airstrike 6y ago
And if Tesla goes under or faces some troubles, or for whatever reason decides to close down shop, since everyone's income is nearly perfectly correlated the city collapses all at once and the entire population is now unemployed
- RhodoGSA 6y ago
  Definitely amplify's risk for sure. If the company went under, your whole county would go under and the government is not likely to bail them out like they would a city who had too much debt. Since you may even purchase your house on the company land, you could quite literally lose everything. Again, if the population thrives the amount of space is hyper-limited. I don't know if there'd be gentrification per say, since it'd be gentrified from the start but the populace would grow fabulously rich off both stock in the company, increased land value and general prosperity for your entire community. It also changes the incentive structure. You want you company to thrive, so your can community to thrive and vice versa.
- alfiedotwtf 6y ago
  And Tesla being car company is the best example of this - Detroit and it’s deterioration since the fall from GM and Ford’s highs

based2 6y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota,_Aichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota,_Aichi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Enterprises https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayne_Enterprises https://smartcityhub.com/technology-innnovation/the-top-ten-companies-that-build-smart-cities/ https://smartcityhub.com/technology-innnovation/the-top-ten-...

alfiedotwtf 6y ago

Funny, I alluded to this in the other thread that’s now marked a dupe. I read the article and couldn’t believe what I was reading. We are making the mistakes of the past... or to rephrase that, the lords are consolidating