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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 08 2021, @12:58PM (1 child)
Yeah, capitalism made many cities have average life expectancy below 20/30 years during industrialization. Not to mention, genocide, slavery, and every other horror you can name.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday February 08 2021, @06:25PM
Slavery is not an artifact of capitalism, sorry. Slavery existed long before naming an economic model even made sense and has existed under every economic model. Communism especially since under that everyone except party leaders is a slave.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.