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Citizens first. Citizens first always. Those that frame this within freedom of choice to live or not live in a corp County, I respond that people will go to wh
by SubiculumCode 6y ago
Citizens first. Citizens first always.
Those that frame this within freedom of choice to live or not live in a corp County, I respond that people will go to where the jobs are. Sure, serfs can choose to go starve in the forest, but if they stay on the lord's land and work, they at least get to eat. Freedom of choice is oppressed by basic necessity. These proposals are a slippery slope, given housing and employment pressures.
edit: honestly shocked by the number of people here willing to grant corporations/companies even more power.
- kelnos 6y agoHistory is doomed to repeat itself, I suppose. I agree; no good can come from this. Allowing corporations to set up their own independent municipalities is about as dystopian as it gets. Beyond what increases employee productivity, corporations have little to no incentive to maintain or improve their employees' quality of life. Sure, some people/executives/management can at times have good intentions, but those people come and go, and the profit motive usually dominates decisions in the end. Most of the people who post on HN are fortunate enough to have a good amount of choice when it comes to jobs and living situations. Many, many people in the world don't have that, and will, as you say, go where the jobs are, even if it's not in their best interests over the long term to do so. As we become more advanced as a species and civilization, the ties between work and livelihood should get weaker, not stronger.