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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Will soon enough turn into Starnesville.
Great observation!
No, don’t build it in California. We already have San Francisco.
Gee, I thought San Freako was the most woke city.
Gee, I thought San Freako was the most woke city.
That was counterintuitive, so I checked your math, you were absolutely right. Thanks for illustrating quantitative thinking, sir, sadly lacking these days.
The US population density is 94 per square mile folks. This sustainable leftist slice of heaven is 21,333 per square mile.
Please don’t put this shit in South Carolina. We enjoy it just the way it is.
“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!”
Translated into the English:
“I am going to get the Democrats I bought to grant me a bunch of your money to set me up a foundation that will buy land on the cheap.
It’ll have a valuable natural resource on it, but I’ll get my Dems to gum it up with enviro regulations so I can buy it for nothing.
Then I’ll move in the rubes to build it up for me while I make $$$$$ selling the resources on the down low. My favored people will just happen to get elected to all the key positions, and when it’s time to dole out all those free things the suckers come in for, that’s when they find out they’re just serfs on my feifdom land.
Yep, neo-feudalism is the way of the future!”
“”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.”
uh, except there’s a REASON (actually MANY reasons) that land in a desert is worth little or nothing and consequently is economically inhabitable ... what a maroon ...
Sounds like a very expensive hippie commune.
sounds great
let’s have a similar but opposite city for the non-woke
Jonestown II
Powers Booth would have been terrific in the life story movie biography on the big screen.
What could go right? He should just Ask for all the Afghanis that are coming to the USA.
But I say the guy is blowing smoke and won’t put up his own money to build Woke-ville-burg-ton.
This guy Lore has a keen ability in e commerce and self promotion
He got Walmart to buy his Amazon competitor Jet for 3.3 billion
They wrote it down four years later with him as CEO but he did build their online substantially in house in the meantime
He will probably do this..,
He’s not going to need 007 and a platoon of Marines to destroy this city. The citizenry will do that themselves. It is basically Ayn Rand meets Ian Fleming.
Every Communist utopia ever started has failed. This rich genius thinks he is the first to come up with it. He should read up on history and start with Plimoth Plantation in MA. There’s a reason why “Woke”/Communism doesn’t work: Because it’s Communism.
How about creating a real Godly utopia instead ? Free markets. No welfare state. No degeneracy or worship of sodomy, “trannyism”, toxic feminaziism. One that extols the virtues of masculinity and femininity. Elimination of race-based laws in favor of color-blind. Teaching excellence and high standards of education and culture, faith-based Judeo-Christian values, critical thinking. Extoling the virtues of married, two-parent families. The polar opposite of everything we see today being pushed by the Satanic, Stalinazi Derp State/government/media/academia/culture.
We know which one works and which one has been a proven failure every time.
Thanks for mentioning this. Been there. A noble experiment it doomed to failure by human nature. Like the Shaker communities, they couldn’t sustain themselves.
So I guess the following will be banned from the city: White Straight Males, Profits, Conservatives and Chick-fil-A! 🤓
In other words, a Communist state.
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