Billionaires dream of building utopian techno-city in Greenland

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12 points geox | 6 comments | 13 Apr 25 01:13 UTC | HN request time: 1.089s | source | bottom
1. duxup ◴[13 Apr 25 01:41 UTC] No.43669361[source]▶
The whole “build a city without a lot of rules” just seems like a path to learning why those rules are there.
2. NoWordsKotoba ◴[13 Apr 25 02:04 UTC] No.43669449[source]▶
Every time I read about the fever-dream utopia that libertarians so desperately want, I am reminded of the town which fell apart because the ideas in practice simply don't work:

"When a group of libertarians set about scrapping their local government, chaos descended. And then the bears moved in." [1]

[1] https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-int...

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3. franktankbank ◴[13 Apr 25 02:26 UTC] No.43669551[source]▶
Oh, not that. We just want slaves and whores and everything else more or less the same. Definitely not bears.
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4. duxup ◴[13 Apr 25 02:49 UTC] No.43669667{3}[source]▶
Doughnut Lady disagrees.
5. LinuxBender ◴[13 Apr 25 13:33 UTC] No.43672701[source]▶
I an others in this thread know why this won't work but let's not discourage them. Let them confine themselves and all their utopian / dystopian tech in their little cities and let all the people that blindly adopt this tech move to those cities. Then we just have to figure out how to encourage them to not leave those cities.