Nevada governor proposes to allow tech companies to create local governments

[celedhring]

Reminds me of when Sheldon Adelson was looking to build a Vegas knockoff in Madrid and requested that the Spanish state granted him a "special zone" where Spanish laws regarding labor, smoking, gambling, taxation etc... didn't apply.

Isn't that what Gibraltar is there for?

Can't fit tacky casinos in that rock 

[Legbiter]

Greg Grandin's book is worth a read, if you are interested

I admit I'm very curious to see this play out. Mix old school Norman Yoke with 2020's HR management staffed with race and gender nuts. Like Syt pointed out we already live in the Cyberpunk timeline. 

[alfred russel]

I don't approve of this: our biggest and most powerful companies should not be given small local governments to directly control. This is America, where they indirectly control all of our government.

[Tonitrus]

What's on the other side of the Earth from Nevada?

Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen, French Southern Territories

[The Brain]

What's on the other side of the Earth from Nevada?

Port-aux-Français, Kerguelen, French Southern Territories

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[Rex Francorum]

Would be nothing new. Company cities are not new. We had quite a few in Québec. I think Hershey was the case too?

[grumbler]

Feudalism. 

*Edit* The experiment has already been done. Fordlandia.

The town had a strict set of rules imposed by the managers. Alcohol, women, tobacco and even football were forbidden within the town, including inside the workers' own homes. Inspectors would go from house to house to check how organised the houses were and to enforce these rules. The inhabitants circumvented these prohibitions by paddling out to merchant riverboats moored beyond the town jurisdiction,[5] often hiding contraband goods inside fruits like watermelons. A small settlement was established 8 kilometres (5 mi) upstream on the "Island of Innocence" with bars, nightclubs and brothels.

The land was hilly, rocky and infertile. None of Ford's managers had the requisite knowledge of tropical agriculture. In the wild, the rubber trees grow apart from each other as a protection mechanism against plagues and diseases, often growing close to bigger trees of other species for added support. In Fordlândia, however, the trees were planted close together in plantations, easy prey for tree blight, sauva ants, lace bugs, red spiders, and leaf caterpillars.[6]

The workers on the plantations were given unfamiliar food, such as hamburgers and canned food, and forced to live in American-style housing. Most disliked the way they were treated – being required to wear ID badges and work through the middle of the day under the tropical sun – and would often refuse to work.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fordl%C3%A2ndia

I didn't see that series. Was it romantic comedy or situation comedy?  Netflix or HBO?

[Darth Wagtaros]

Disney had a town.  It sucked too.

[crazy canuck]

Would be nothing new. Company cities are not new. We had quite a few in Québec. I think Hershey was the case too?

Company towns are not new, but what is new is removing any possibility of democratic process.

[Valmy]

I do not appreciate things like this continuing to solidify the Democrats as a thoroughly pro-corporate party. Come on guys you used to sell out to the Unions, it was annoying at the time but it was far preferable than selling out to the bosses.

[Admiral Yi]

I do not appreciate things like this continuing to solidify the Democrats as a thoroughly pro-corporate party.

You and I definitely have different understandings of pro-corporate party.

[Tonitrus]

From this, I expect that town around the Tesla gigafactory will crown King Musk.

[Darth Wagtaros]

From this, I expect that town around the Tesla gigafactory will crown King Musk.

King Elon I of House of Musk?  Sounds like some Deliverance kind of shit.

[Valmy]

Hail Musk!