After weeks of local speculation, the purchasers of 55,000 acres of northern California land have been revealed. The group Flannery Associates – backed by a cohort of Silicon Valley investors – has quietly purchased $800m worth of agricultural and empty land, the New York Times has reported. Their goal is to build a utopian new town that will offer its thousands of residents reliable public transportation and urban living, all of which would operate using clean energy.

  • @schroedingershat
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    181 year ago

    That was end stage capitalism.

    Unions mostly defeated it after that, but then everyone forgot how bad it was and elected Thatcher and Reagan

    • @delaunayisation
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      31 year ago

      Well, was it really unions or the bloodshed of the two world wars and fear of the world revolution?