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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.
(Score: 1, Troll) by VLM on Saturday February 06 2021, @07:55PM
That's almost phrase for phrase the argument for authoritarianism from "Fire in the Lake".
The thing about a 100 person Vietnamese village operating under hereditary dictatorship is a dictator of a 10 million person country can F over 9.999... million lives without F-ing over his own family, but the dictator of a farm village can't F over anyone because essentially everyone under his domain is some form of distant cousin or cousin-in-law at worst.
Some dude has a nice house in a 10M person dictatorship you just kill him and take the house; you can't do that in a 100 person farm village dictatorship because the guy with a nice house is literally your son, or maybe nephew or something.
Essentially you can run a vastly extended family on a dictatorship, but not much larger.