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'They turned our home into a cemetery': high price of El Salvador's Bitcoin City

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27 pointspseudolus9 comments

What's up with leaders deciding they need to build a new city somewhere to accomplish some policy?

Is there any evidence that all the time and expense and inefficiency of a new "city" somewhere really pays off?

It’s been happening for thousands of years. Many of the ancient planned cities started out ok but eventually ran out of groundwater and were abandoned.

Alexander alone is thought to have founded 13 cities, but the Alexandria at the mouth of the Nile changed History.

Sounds like the an archetype of the classic politician lie. "If you give me more power I will solve everything." Combine that with the general "central planner's megalomania" where they think they know every last detail of how things should run without regards to any input of the inhabitants.

There's another round of that game being played right now as well: https://www.freedomcitiescoalition.com/

> 50 States which could build Freedom Cities

> Located strategically throughout America's heartland

> $1T+ Wealth created per city

> $1.9T Projected economic impact

> 250,000+ Potential residents of Freedom Cities by 2035

Is this a serious page? I had heard of the concept, but none of this makes sense when put side by side.

Whats old is new again. Some say this is the end goal for people like Musk, Theil etc. Company towns but instead of towns, collapse the US and the remaining pieces get divided up into different company 'enclaves' that subjects can apply for immigration to and be employed in. You'd live, eat and work in company provided resources.

After thinking about it, its probably inevitable that the US goes down this route. Any semblance of worker solidarity is nonexistent and has been mostly beaten out of the populace and there seems like no pathway to go back to those days.

Its not even the endgame. They want to live forever and “exit” the human race (on top of its ashes) and so they need unregulated nuclear research, medical experimentation on humans (happening now in their city in Honduras, Prospera), and control of the local civic centres so that they can set up rapid manufacture and deployment of weaponized drones and more.

They will eat everything if they think it gives them a chance to live forever.

A year ago, I would have thought this nuts and some kind of twisted fan fiction, but it seems to be happening now.

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/unregulated-medical-experimentati...

https://www.vcinfodocs.com/venture-capital-extremism

There are mostly end-runs around regulations or taxes for small groups of people, so putting them into a small geographic area makes sense (at least for the folks who will benefit).

I'd also bet that in many cases, it's easier for a politican to carve out a small area and say "our usual laws don't apply in this city for X special reason" than it is for them to actually dismantle money laundry laws, kill revenue generating tax programs, end enivornmental regs or whatever at a national level.

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