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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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[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 11 points 1 year ago

Oh yeah, make them stay forever in there.

[–] db2@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] jonne@infosec.pub 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] drislands@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year 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.