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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday February 06 2021, @04:34AM   Printer-friendly
from the company-towns-and-company-scrip dept.

Nevada bill would allow tech companies to create governments:

Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state's economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

The measure to further economic development with the "alternative form of local government" has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.

[...] The governor's economic development office did not respond to questions about the zones Wednesday.


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  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 06 2021, @04:08PM (4 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 06 2021, @04:08PM (#1109671) Journal

    So what you're saying is that putting people in awful situations is totally fine so long as it's not you that's in that awful situation.

    So what you're saying is that you're an idiot who doesn't have a thing to contribute to this thread? Don't put words in my mouth.

    Awful is relative. You already acknowledge later that coal mining in a company town was better in your view than other things those people could be doing (such as allegedly "starve to death"). I imagine that if those coal miners had been transported a century into the future, even into a hypothetical company town in Nevada, it'd still be vastly than where they were. But the only way to get from there to here is one back-breaking day at a time.

    Similarly, a century or so down the road, we may have all the big ticket troubles that humanity faces solved. In such a case, today would probably look pretty awful to those future people. But we can't just choose to transport ourselves to that future. There's no royal road to good situations. One has to work to get there.

    That's why I support this idea. It's an experiment that has considerable potential to make a better future. And as I noted with my Disney World example, sometimes it works pretty damn well.

    If you know the history of the West Virginia coal wars, you know that the people who lived there did not in any significant way approve of how the system worked. They went into coal mining because their only alternative, after the coal companies poisoned what had been their farmland, was to starve to death. Company thugs murdered a mayor and a local police chief that tried to resist them among others. There was even a pitched battle between company forces and the miners, who apparently thought that attacking an entrenched enemy uphill armed with nothing but handguns and clubs was preferable to enduring their current situation.

    Cool story, bro. Note first that you acknowledge that coal mining in a company town was a relatively good choice. Second, you fail to acknowledge that the alternative to all that is move somewhere else (which wouldn't have been that far away) where farmland isn't poisoned and such and you don't need jobs in company towns to keep from starving. People mined coal by choice.

    And given that they knuckled under after the defeat at the Battle of Blair Mountain, there apparently were things worse than the current situation.

  • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday February 06 2021, @06:24PM (1 child)

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 06 2021, @06:24PM (#1109712) Journal

    It's an experiment

    And, you look like a fine guinea pig to me!

    • (Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:09PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @08:09PM (#1109762)

      khallow is now too fluffy and round to run on the wheel. It's more of a tumble cycle. So he can no longer be a guinea pig. Sorry.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @06:28PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 06 2021, @06:28PM (#1109714)

    Your outrage short circuits your reading skills. Not surprising, one can not bury their emotions for long without causing serious mental disorders.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 07 2021, @01:12PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 07 2021, @01:12PM (#1109931) Journal

      Your outrage short circuits your reading skills. Not surprising, one can not bury their emotions for long without causing serious mental disorders.

      In other words, a "heads I win, tails you lose" position. If I show emotion, it's an outrage short circuit. If I don't, then it's "burying" emotion. There is no right approach to your criticism which let us note is irrelevant to the discussion.

      But most significantly, there's no word at all on the bogus "So what you're saying is" straw man that sparked this alleged outrage short circuit. Some alleged minor outburst on my part is worth mentioning. A blatant fake characterization of my words is not.

      Can't you see the dishonesty of these posts, both Thexalon's and yours?