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2024-06-10 -Great Cultural Revolution

Billionaires fighting to build new Californian 'utopian city' for more than 400,000 people with...

[Daily Mail, where America gets its news] … 'jobs for EVERYONE' reveal the companies ready to move in - but there's a catch.

California Forever has bought up 50,000 acres worth almost $1 billion in an area of Solano County, about 60 miles northeast of San Francisco.

Led by former Goldman Sachs banker Jan Sramek, it was wants to turn the land into an 'old-fashioned,' walkable city that could grow to 400,000 residents.

Imagined as a largely middle-class utopia with safe neighborhoods and high-paying jobs, the group claims it already has eager businesses lined up.

California Forever said a dozen companies were committed to bringing jobs if the project, which has fierce local opposition, ever gets off the ground.

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-10 06:19|| || Front Page|| [11146 views ] Top

#1 ...yeah.

Posted by Procopius2k 2024-06-10 06:57|| 2024-06-10 06:57|| Front Page Top

#2 Few people even are aware that the meaning of the word "utopia" is "nowhere," as in "nowhere you have ever been or will ever go."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 07:00|| 2024-06-10 07:00|| Front Page Top

#3 The big stumbling block is that they want to allow in the working servant peons but keep the riff-raff out. The governments view the riff-raff as necessary clientele.

Posted by ed in texas 2024-06-10 08:41|| 2024-06-10 08:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Horror: 20,000 people live in this dystopian building and never leave

Posted by Skidmark 2024-06-10 09:25|| 2024-06-10 09:25|| Front Page Top

#5 Gone now, but at one time...

Kowloon Walled City

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 10:21|| 2024-06-10 10:21|| Front Page Top

#6 It's hot, humid, flat and desolate. A perfect "utopia".

Posted by Cured Romantic 2024-06-10 13:13|| 2024-06-10 13:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Will the work set us frei?

Posted by Regular+joe 2024-06-10 16:15|| 2024-06-10 16:15|| Front Page Top

#8 Despite opposition from every local politician and environmental and farming organizations, the project cleared its first hurdle.

Translation: The appropriate palms are being greased and the thirsty beaks are lining up to be wetted.

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 16:30|| 2024-06-10 16:30|| Front Page Top

#9 /\ Translation: The appropriate palms are being greased and the thirsty beaks are lining up to be wetted.

An impeckable translation.

Posted by Besoeker 2024-06-10 18:07|| 2024-06-10 18:07|| Front Page Top

#10 Hmm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_Fealty_(novel)

Posted by Chantry 2024-06-10 19:08|| 2024-06-10 19:08|| Front Page Top

#11 so sad

these billionaires could have really helped if they built nice new neighborhoods in existing small and medium urban areas and brought jobs to those areas -- there are hundreds of such areas which have lost population and jobs over the past 30 years and the roads, sewers, electrical lines, water lines and so forth are already almost all built thus reducing the overall cost

Posted by Lord Garth 2024-06-10 21:20|| 2024-06-10 21:20|| Front Page Top

#12 It's not about improving anyone's lives. It's about being the master in "master plan."

Posted by M. Murcek 2024-06-10 22:19|| 2024-06-10 22:19|| Front Page Top

#13 Let's call the population of California at 40millioni.

400K is what, 1%.

I know it has been a while since a This Week in Books, but I put forward 1177 BC.

Posted by swksvolFF 2024-06-10 23:05|| 2024-06-10 23:05|| Front Page Top

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