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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, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @05:57AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @05:57AM (#1109893)

    Communism isn't a stable situation whether or not the US wants to go in and topple them. It wouldn't be possible to so easily topple them if they weren't already rather precarious. It's not like things were all hunkydorry in those countries prior to the US intervening. If it was, it would be a lot more expensive and difficult to topple the state. In most cases, since there's effectively no rewards for working harder, people don't. We're getting to the same basic issue in the US, it's just that rather than the party taking everything, it's an increasingly small number of kleptocrats that are stealing everything. We're not quite to the point where the Russians were just before the Soviet Union and most of their satellite states collapsed, but we're likely to get there during my lifetime if something doesn't stop the slide.

    It's inherently unstable to have a handful of people controlling everything, getting all the proceeds from the labor of a much larger group of people. When the people at the bottom think they can work their way up and get the things they want out of life, it sort of works, but at this point, an increasing share of the people don't get vacation time, don't get proper health care, can't count on ever getting to retire and are on the verge of bankruptcy since any savings they do manage to accumulate winds of being ripped off by one business or another even if they are engaging responsible behavior.

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