The People of Solano County Versus the Next Tech-Billionaire Dystopia
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If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

The Tech Billionaires Soft-Launching Secession in California — If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state::If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

  • mosiacmango@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    10 months ago

    Ohh yeah i get it, but at least that would be interesting. These fucks are just setting up a play city for billionaires where they own everything from the water to the sky in some byzantine “vertically integrated ownership of a human life” bullshit.

    Tge least they could do was make a tech mecha in Oklahoma, dump some money into rural states. Just get weird with it out in the wind blown plains, but nah.

    • kingthrillgore@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      They would never do that in the Midwest or the South because, as much as they lobby for it, nobody wants to work in these regions due to:

      • Lower pay
      • Legislation making it impossible to get aid for abortion, affordable broadband, and healthcare, which leads into…
      • Incredibly poor cultural fit, which leads into…
      • Inability to poach or recruit to the region, which leads into…
      • Challenges executing corporate vision

      If they could, they would have already.

    • tsonfeir@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      10 months ago

      The weather is shit in the Midwest, and as the climate gets worse, the Midwest is going to be wrecked with those northern winds. The western coast largely avoids those winds because of several mountain ranges and the ocean, keeping it from freezing over.