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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 Sunday February 07 2021, @02:15PM (2 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 07 2021, @02:15PM (#1109939) Journal

    some wonderful corporation with a nice "don't be evil" slogan will come along, and show us the right way to set up a corporation town/county/state.

    Isn't that the one that has employees earning $300K per year sleeping in conversion vans in the parking lot because they can't afford housing within commute distance?

    Good point. A company like Google probably can do vastly better running their own housing rather than depending on crazy California to do it for them. We might see Nevada eat California's lunch, should this become law.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @02:58PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 07 2021, @02:58PM (#1109942)

    California is screwed either way, as remote work is now the "new normal" for white collar jobs. Who wants to live in a city when you don't have to, let alone with a housing bubble so outrageous?

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:47PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday February 07 2021, @03:47PM (#1109959) Journal
      We'll see if it stays the new normal. My take is that enough of California will be vaccinated within a year to kill off present strains of covid. The old normal wasn't that way just because. A lot of businesses want workplace presence.