Nevada gov proposes allowing privatised local government

[Philjia]

Original article from the Associated Press.

Hey are you a tech company with a billion dollars? Why not buy 78 square miles of Nevada and found your own town, run by you?

Is not the exact thing that hack sci-fi writers have been warning us about for fucking decades?

[Tinhampton]

Isn't this pretty much the same idea that the Charter Cities movement has?

[Lillorainen]

Hey are you a tech company with a billion dollars? Why not buy 78 square miles of Nevada and found your own town, run by you?

And why not take the chance to gamble it away at the next casino you can find, while we're at it? It's Nevada, after all.

[Ifreann]

Tech bros re-inventing company towns.

[Senkaku]

A postmodern Hanseatic League of data center clusters in the desert as the US is falling apart from climate change could actually be a really good setting for the next dystopian sci-fi blockbuster, if there's any aspiring scriptwriters keeping up with this.

[Garkland]

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but hey it's not a bad one either. It cuts costs, allows things to be more efficient, plus less red tape. But I could how this could go terribly terribly wrong.

[Ifreann]

Sixteen Tons, but it's about mining bitcoin.

[Adamede]

Corporate towns tun by said corporation aren’t anything new.

[Adamede]

I'm not saying it's a good idea, but hey it's not a bad one either. It cuts costs, allows things to be more efficient, plus less red tape. But I could how this could go terribly terribly wrong.

It’s a very bad idea.

[The Reformed American Republic]

I don't think this is a good idea. We're already governed too much by corporations as it is, and we don't need outright Corporatocracy.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Tech bros re-inventing company towns.

Company town weren't so bad, considering. Company builds and operates for a while, government nationalizes. It's a town for nothing!

[The Two Jerseys]

Sixteen Tons, but it's about mining bitcoin.

St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company e-store

[Adamede]

Sixteen Tons, but it's about mining bitcoin.

St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company e-store

They only pay me in in-game currency.

[Cordel One]

oh NO

Why would they think this would be a good idea?

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

Taking a hardass government point of view, there's nothing bad about it.

The company town fails: a bunch of out-of-state investors lost their money in your state.
The company town is OK, due to out-of-state investors: nationalize their odd-toed ungulates.
And other ass-ets of course ...

I doubt a state government can "nationalize" anything, tho

[Arisyan]

*america intensifies*

but seriously this is one of the worst ideas any US State Government has had, and that's saying something.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

oh NO

Why would they think this would be a good idea?

Suck money into the state then nationalize the bastards? It's what I would do.

[The Mojave Expedition]

Imagine if this is how we balkanize

[Adamede]

oh NO

Why would they think this would be a good idea?

Probably want to attract corporations to a state where the majority of the land is uninhabited desert.

[Adamede]

Imagine if this is how we balkanize

Ruling a state generally isn’t profitable. And Balkanization is bad enough.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

*america intensifies*

but seriously this is one of the worst ideas any US State Government has had, and that's saying something.

Nowhere near the worst idea. US States are hotbeds of bad ideas. I think some of them think it's a game to do the dumbest shit possible without getting voted out.

[A-Series-Of-Tubes]

oh NO

Why would they think this would be a good idea?

Probably want to attract corporations to a state where the majority of the land is uninhabited desert.

Basically selling really low-value real estate, but with a big markup for having people on it. Maybe some historic building which will fall down due to a gas explosion.

[Thermodolia]

Tech bros re-inventing company towns.

Per the usual they don’t have an original thought

[Ifreann]

St. Peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company e-store

They only pay me in in-game currency.

7.25 Vbucks an hour? Such generous!

[The Reformed American Republic]

*america intensifies*

but seriously this is one of the worst ideas any US State Government has had, and that's saying something.

Privatized government is not American culture nor what it was founded on unless you believe the AstroTurf movements.