Tech Elites Are Starting Their Own For-Profit Cities

Good. Maybe we can end tech sycophancy by sending all the tech elite boot lickers there. They can circularly pat themselves on the back about how amazing they are and pass around crypto.

I mean I love the concept. However something makes me suspect none of these will be the completely-walkable, full of art, no-pollution, no plastic, utopia city I'm thinking of.

But no harm in them trying their idea...

The return of technocracy from 1930s?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technocracy_movement

"Technocracy advocates contended that price system-based forms of government and economy are structurally incapable of effective action, and promoted a society headed by technical experts, which they argued would be more rational and productive."

A staple of many scifi novels.

It's all atlas shrugged cult thinking.

Oh my god just tax the land already

There’s an alternative theory that cities need to be bit chaotic:

“The Uses of Disorder analyzes human development at the personal and collective level in wealthy cities, presenting the thesis that such cities are excessively ordered and thereby enable residents to avoid personal growth or change. Instead of relying on prescriptive plans and rigid self-conceptions, Sennett argues, people should remain open to difference and disorder while city life ought to be more disorderly and decentralized.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Disorder

There is a relatively successful corporate backed political party in Kerala, India. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twenty20_Kizhakkambalam

They have done quite well over the years, but have limited themselves to the small area around which the company has influence.

Mr. Lee’s Greater Hong Kong?