Elitist billionaire wants to build isolated city filled with 50,000 slaves...Brave New World!

The OP made it look really creepy. The video on their website is pretty much the opposite.

The vision for the city says nothing about slaves. Please watch the video here:

https://cityoftelosa.com/#sidewidgetarea

There is nothing worse than an elitist billionaire with no grip on reality, especially when they start floating wild ideas for their own gain at the expense of most everyone else. Even worse is when a lot of people buy in to it.

So Goofy wrote:

If your vision of diversity includes migrants from south of the border and American blacks, you need welfare, social services, cops and jails.

End Result: educated White liberals working to take care of a growing population of hostile no White people.

See? Just like California.

So you are implying in a very racist way that all American blacks and Mexicans are either criminals, on welfare and require social services???

Yet the President with the most class you have ever had is black.

I am Sam wrote:

So Goofy wrote:

If your vision of diversity includes migrants from south of the border and American blacks, you need welfare, social services, cops and jails.

End Result: educated White liberals working to take care of a growing population of hostile no White people.

See? Just like California.

So you are implying in a very racist way that all American blacks and Mexicans are either criminals, on welfare and require social services???

Yet the President with the most class you have ever had is black.

What do you expect on a website where the founder and owner pops onto a thread with openly racist statements and just chit-chats like nothing’s amiss. It’s apple pie and bubble gum all day for rojo.

Didnt realize yahoo was still going

Sounds more like a cult than a city. They take your money in return for the hard sell on an unattainable dream based on fake morality, isolate you in a desert community far away from other influences, and in return they build some tunnels and bridges?

It's a no-goer. You might et a few hundred, even a few thousand desperate soles whose pysche depends on being told what to do, but not wealthy, independently minded people. Unless there's a heck of a lot of rewards in it for them.

Hit the road Jack wrote:

Incidentally, the Talosians were a race of evil mind control beings who kidnapped Captain Christopher Pike in the first Star Trek pilot.

Doubt that is a coincidence, most likely a insider joke.

Seriously that maybe a part of their plan crash society into ruins so people flee to one of their designated plantations.

Whites have been fleeing to gated communities for years, this is simply the hi tech, freedomless version of that. A hi tech feudal system.

Lords and serfs, Masters and slaves, for most of human history that has been common. More people have been born subjects, slaves and peasants then have been born Citizens.

The current system can not endure, in fact the system is doing it’s best to destroy societies under it’s control.

This maybe a inkling of what they intend to replace them with.

I guess when you have that much money you start playing Sim City in real life.

I detect a flaw in this otherwise brilliant plan. What happens when the rest of the world realizes this thing has gone off the rails and says we are cutting off the water for your dessert paradise. If one thing should be obvious to everyone from these morons promising the Utopia is that the only one you should put in charge of your own well-being is you.

I feel like I just watched an infomercial for the opposite of Galt's Gulch.

This looks so cool.

roho the ho wrote:

I am Sam wrote:

So you are implying in a very racist way that all American blacks and Mexicans are either criminals, on welfare and require social services???

Yet the President with the most class you have ever had is black.

What do you expect on a website where the founder and owner pops onto a thread with openly racist statements and just chit-chats like nothing’s amiss. It’s apple pie and bubble gum all day for rojo.

Oh it gets much worse than this. Check out this thread brojos condoned filled with nazi sympathizers and holocaust deniers

Just to make this running related, Marc Lore ran track (as a sprinter) at Bucknell in the early 90's. He raced (and beat) Jerry Rice in a 40 a few years ago at the NFL draft for charity.

zxvczcxv wrote:

While citizens of Telosa would be able to build their own homes and sell them, the city would maintain ownership of the land itself, Lore told USA Today's Scott Gleeson on Sunday.

So, its a giant trailer park. Got it.

Anyone remember Jonestown? How’d that work out?

This is not a new idea. There have been a bunch of different versions of this proposed by various big money people. Celebration, Florida is an early example that actually got built but just ended up being another suburb and ran into all kinds of problems. More recently, a project called Oceanix proposed a floating city.

All of these utopian-esque proposals have one thing in common, the idea that you can build a better community if you just start from scratch. What is offensive about these proposals is that the kind of funding they can generate could do wonders for existing communities that have suffered after deindustrialization and offshoring/automation of manufacturing jobs. $400 billion in development funding could turn forgotten and depressed rustbelt towns like Youngstown, Ohio or Huntington, WV into thriving cities again. In fact, the money would go a lot further because there is already infrastructure and a community in place. Every dollar would just go towards making things better and attracting new business.

rojo wrote:

The OP made it look really creepy. The video on their website is pretty much the opposite.

The vision for the city says nothing about slaves. Please watch the video here:

https://cityoftelosa.com/#sidewidgetarea

The video on their website isn't closed captioned, nor is their website accessible. Real equitable.

zxvczcxv wrote:

"Taxes paid will go back to the city for infrastructure - roads, tunnels and bridges - so everyone would know exactly where their money is going."

LOL, I've heard that line before. Give it 5 years, and that is most definitely not where any of the tax money will be going.

rojo wrote:

The OP made it look really creepy. The video on their website is pretty much the opposite.

The vision for the city says nothing about slaves. Please watch the video here:

https://cityoftelosa.com/#sidewidgetarea

Seriously Rojo? While I agree about the OP misrepresenting the slavery thing. Nothing was mentioned anywhere regarding slavery. But a super dystopian vibe is put off by the video on their website.

We're going to take the elite from society and create this amazing city with the perfect mix of Capitalism and compassion with all these amazing amenities and social services based on the best features of different places around the world. The story this really reminded me of is the Giver. We're just going to create this Utopian society walled off from all the evils of the outside world. Not to mention we just need to take $400 billion in capital roughly 2% of US GDP and build a Utopian city for 50K people roughly 1/7000th of the US population.

Wait. So this will have borders and not everyone can come in?!?

Also. Same density as San Francisco per website. Is that with or without the homeless included in the census.