For all its faults, the EU has done a lot of good when it comes to consumer rights and protections.
This is chilling. And some should take note that this was proposed by a Democrat. The Democrats are not going to save the left in the US.
Dystopia is now!
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I wonder how long it takes you to get out from the middle to the outskirts. Maybe if you could crawl through your window into the next house and so on 4 times over you eventually get to see the Sun.
Sounds like some of the old mill villages we had in England like Saltaire. The community and companies formally being one.
I'll go out on a limb and say it's not beyond the realms of possibility that some of the tech giants may create better communities.
Saltaire was the only good one, I think. Maybe Bournville too. But Salt didn't allow any pubs so there was that.
Think Peter Thiel, of the more public billionaires, is a big proponent of this. Marketplace of society/governance, only with current/future times in mind
Why am i not surprised. That guy creeps me the hell out
Port Sunlight as well?
Out of curiosity, how different is this from university campuses having their own police force? I don't really know what other powers they have, just wondering if there's a comparable situation there.
What a fecking absolute cnut! My blood is boiling after seeing that!
The Microsoft campus in Seattle is basically just a huge Microsoft town, and it’s pretty sweet to be fair.
Of course places tend to look nice when you can restrict them to fairly rich people.
That's just the circle of life. We've gone back to the days just after industrialisation when employers would pay their workers with company minted money that could only be spent in company owned shops.
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Reading stuff like this crushes my soul. What kind of rapacious, vindictive society have we created?
Yes and thousands of workers died fighting for basic workers rights not long after those times.
https://www.historycrunch.com/working-conditions-in-the-industrial-revolution.html#/
How long before the tech companies would kick you out the community of you don't work for them anymore? Have you looked into Amazon's current treatment of workers?
Amazon Town: It's a grim thought.
Read about that effort by Henry Ford to build a town in the Amazon if you want to see how grim it can get.
Yeah I'm well aware of the downsides I'm from a mill town myself. I don't think such an experiment would mean a revert to child labour though, it's still operating within national law.
If Amazon fire you then you get transfered to Poundland or Home Bargains.
Nope. Can’t see anything going off the rails with this brilliant idea. Nothing at all.
Living in a mill town in 2021 is not really comparable is it though? It is alot like canals, they used to be horrible dirty places of graft and hardship. Now they are for a leisurely boat, stroll or bike ride!
Your idea brings a whole new meaning to Amazon Prime. Might mean the unflavoured non-prime workers can live in a large Amazon cardboard box with lots of excess padding.
That qualifies as greenwashing bollocks rather than dystopia.
This is a real eye in the sky horrorshow.
Call centre staff to be monitored via webcam for home-working ‘infractions’
https://www.theguardian.com/busines...monitored-via-webcam-home-working-infractions
The first cartoon in that is Tory Britain in microcosm.
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Like something out of Dino Crisis.
It's just a matter of time now
It's just a matter of time now