Posted on 09/07/2021 5:12:31 PM PDT by conservative98
Former Walmart executive and e-commerce billionaire Marc Lore wants to build the world’s first woke city from scratch — somewhere in the US.
Lore last week unveiled plans for his utopia, called Telosa, from the ancient Greek word Telos, meaning "highest purpose."
"The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable, sustainable future. That’s our North Star," Lore said in a promotional video. "We are going to be the most open, the most fair and the most inclusive city in the world."
Key to the city’s plans is Lore’s economic vision, called "Equitism," in which the land upon which the city is built will be donated to a community endowment.
Residents, in turn, own their homes on the land and are enriched as home values increase, according to the project’s site, and after a period of "hyper-growth," residents can buy the land from the community endowment.
"If you went into the desert where the land was worth nothing, or very little, and you created a foundation that owned the land, and people moved there and tax dollars built infrastructure and we built one of the greatest cities in the world, the foundation could be worth a trillion dollars," Lore told Bloomberg Businessweek.
"And if the foundation’s mission was to take the appreciation of the land and give it back to the citizens in the form of medicine, education, affordable housing, social services: Wow, that’s it!"
The city is meant to take on what Lore views as the United States’ biggest challenge — the rapidly growing wealth gap, which he said "is going to bring down America."
"While the current economic system is a growth engine, it has led to increasing inequality," the project’s website explains. "Equitism is inclusive growth."
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Sounds like a boondoggle to me or a Potempkin Village.
Mao shot these people. His fans in western universities always seem to overlook this unpleasant fact.
They already ruined the closest thing to Utopia there has ever been on earth.
Obviously a doo-dooey good left-wing fig.
This will be fun to watch.
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My father bought in in the 60's or 70's and moved there with Ma.
We already have a city for you Hell, MI
MasterBagster run Bartertown.
Build it in California, plenty of desert there. Just not in Arizona, please.
The mission of Telosa is to create a more equitable, sustainable future
what do-ya wanna bet that means EVERYBODY has to have a job, no welfare...
Before the Pandemic I think in 2018, FOX broadcasting did a reality show based on this. It was scheduled for a year. I think I saw one or two episodes then it vanished from the airwaves. I wonder why?
Utopia is a unicorn’s dream.
You know what they say about Unicorns?
They fart rainbows!
Why not just take a town like Detroit and rebuild it. A lot of the infrastructure is already in place.
Then it can fail even sooner.
They can get things right from the beginning.
Not tied into the national power grid, totally self-sufficient with lots of windmills and solar panels.
And Teslas.
They can also cut the crap and call it Jonestown.
“If you went into the desert where the land was worth nothing, or very little,
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Sahara Desert.
Or Antarctica
Build two. Summer and winter.
Correction: 2014. The show was called Utopia and only lasted for 8 weeks after being touted as a year-long show.
He’ll make sure everyone has a 10% Walmart discount.
Re: Utopia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(2014_American_TV_series)#Reception
Through the first two episodes, five of the eight men assembled have violent physical outbursts.... the first night [ends] with one case of alcohol poisoning, another of threatening sexual behavior, and two fights, Piraro sadly opines that so far the group is failing miserably at utopia, as if the producers had been hoping for a dull, conflict-free Eden.”
Reminds me of Mark’s 2012 book, Ameritopia.
Levin asks, what is this utopian force that both allures a free people and destroys them?
https://www.amazon.com/Ameritopia-Unmaking-Mark-R-Levin-ebook/dp/B005O2YWVC
He could move to that commie place near Prescott, Arizona - Arcosanti.
Where's the delta variant when ya need it?
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