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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Good, spend ALL your money on it.
If they bring their lefty ways with them, it should take about 30 years to get a permit to begin clearing land.
The problem with building a utopian city is that it will be inhabited by human beings.
Give the guy credit for reading a collection of suckers. He'll raise a bunch of venture capital from the cultists.
it’s already been done...
there’s a city that had a slogan that claimed it never sleeps...
wonder which one it was and how it’s working out...
Oh sure, it all starts with the Ooh’s and Ahhs, then comes the inevitable running, and the screaming...
Go for it dipshit. Delusions of grandeur are Nature’s way of telling you you have way too much money..
We’ve already seen what this city is.
Bartertown.
Where Thunderdome was.
Except this entire city will become Thunderdome.
Nothing could be more oppressive than living in another man's specially designed paradise, because it ain't yours.
Didn’t you just describe every city in California?
Hopefully he just has everyone thrown down a bottomless cavern, and all woke people die.
Well, first you build temple to Satan and the go on from there.
Yeah! Good! That’s what we want. Enough of the theorizing. Let us see it in action. Let us know how that works out for you.
It never does because the upper leaders, the innder party, know that 1) it is impossible to have pure communism as its been defined, and 2) therefore thy will always be in a state of socialism, that aways requires a guiding, controlling, all powerful inner party, forever
Its just their way of staying in power and luxury, the inner party is the oligarchy that falsely claims to keeppushing for “progress” to communism, but its a total lie
I’m all for this idea. In fact, I’d like to see President-on-Sabbatical Trump do something similar. Create a town where every citizen is required to carry his or her own weight.
Great!
You must remain there for the rest of your natural born life - any descendants you might have as well.
None of these “utopias” ever turn out well...
It looks great on paper, but there's these pesky little things called Human Nature...and Natural Law.
Sodom and Gomorrah are already taken.
Or, what about a tower..oh wait..scratch that.
Aunty Entity w/ Master Blaster
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