Billionaire entrepreneur Marc Lore wants to build nation’s first woke city

Fox Business ^ | 9/7/21 | Will Feuer

[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."

[Deplorable American1776]

I guess it will be racially mixed with the same percentage as America, but will it be same percentage for sexual orientation, wealth (err... Forget that), political orientation (🤓 yeah right, no Conservatives need apply).

I guess the public buildings will not be named for anybody in history. I guess, the school there will be the Indoctrination Center #1 for the elementary school and the high school will be Indoctrination Center #2. The sport team will be either the snowflakes or the Indoctrinators!! 🤓

[Deplorable American1776]

The Shakers, too.

[Deplorable American1776]

True...

[Eleutheria5]

“We know which one works and which one has been a proven failure every time.”

That’s why he wants Woke-opolis. He’ll finance it with an IPO, and then short the stock;-D

[MoochPooch]

What would even hold the city together? Is there a shared religion, ideology -- or even institution, like the Mayo Clinic, where many of the city employees work, or a university, where student-faculty-staff populations can comprise a mini-city? No one is going to just "move" somewhere without an attraction or reason. The great cities of the world grew organically -- often trade or commerce centers, with the same ethnicity or national community. Without a purpose for being, or shared culture, the city will fail.

This guy probably imagines a bunch of happy-sappy PC types, proudly declaring their pronouns and giving each other warm fuzzies. Creepy as hell. City shouldn't just be rezoned; it should be called THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

[Sgt_Schultze]

Haha! What a goldmine that would be for any normal criminal. Remember San Angeles from Demolition Man?

[sport]

Congress has 535 of them [Criminals] plus two in the White House. But there are those that love them. Those that love them are called voters.