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Nevada Bill Would Allow Tech Companies to Create Governments

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

upstart writes in with an IRC submission for AzumaHazuki:

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: 3, Informative) by c0lo on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:15PM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday February 06 2021, @11:15PM (#1109810) Journal

    The central idea of communism is, the workers own the means of production. If you ever worked in a co-operative, that's the definition of a communism.

    False. That's the definition of socialism. For your convenience [wikipedia.org], with the emphasis on what you missed in your "definition":

    Communism (from Latin communis, 'common, universal')[1][2] is a philosophical, social, political and economic ideology and movement whose ultimate goal is the establishment of a communist society, namely a socioeconomic order structured upon the ideas of common ownership of the means of production and the absence of social classes, money[3][4] and the state.[5][6]

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