Tech Billionaires’ Quest to Build a New City in California Is Already Mired in Trouble::A legal battle is already brewing over a quixotic attempt to build a new city on Bay Area farmland.

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    8 months ago

    I say let them do it. But only them, nobody that isn’t a tech billionaire is allowed in at any time for any reason.

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      8 months ago

      That would be so interesting. They’d have to automate almost everything.

      Can they not be allowed to leave as well? I’d enjoy watching that petri dish. A billion dollars doesn’t mean much without disparity.

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        8 months ago

        They’d be screwed the first time they needed a sink unclogged or a tire changed. Assuming they even got as far as building structures that didn’t collapse immediately.

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          8 months ago

          It would go bad way before that. These people wouldn’t clean up after themselves.

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        8 months ago

        They’d certainly think it’s possible. Like a game of Factorio. But what they wouldn’t consider is that the protagonist in that game is fully capable of doing all the work by hand.