>According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
I look forward to our next Chernobyl.
LuisRobertDylan on
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rimRasenW on
Lmao they’re pitching Night City
Kelso_sloane on
For all their talk of medical testing and construction I really think most of this boils down to age of consent laws.
badusername35 on
Unless these cities are on Indian Reservations wouldn’t they still have to follow state laws? The only way this would work is if they got the federal government to (illegally) ignore crimes committed in these cities. Also, if anything they do spills out of these cities they can still be sued. If you dump shit in the river it’s gonna flow downstream. Incredibly stupid idea.
ultramilkplus on
It’d be incredibly based for people to be able to have a little store front or workshop in their home and vise versa. Instead we’re going to get Temu quality nuclear reactors, robot whorehouses, and ketamine kiosks.
Remember when Trump said he’d build new cities in the Midwest with flying cars taxis? Like 1 year ago exactly?
ModsAreFired on
A city with lower taxes, zero zoning and fewer business regulations would be this sub’s dream if it wasn’t trump suggesting this idea.
One of the proposed places for this city is the presidio, a small federal land carve out inside San Francisco, building a “Freedom city” there is exactly what that city needs to save itself from its own nimby government.
Or we could just keep hating on the idea because trump.
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American Singapore, Hong Kong, etc please
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>According to interviews and presentations viewed by WIRED, the goal of these cities would be to have places where anti-aging clinical trials, nuclear reactor startups, and building construction can proceed without having to get prior approval from agencies like the Food and Drug Administration, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Environmental Protection Agency.
I look forward to our next Chernobyl.
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Lmao they’re pitching Night City
For all their talk of medical testing and construction I really think most of this boils down to age of consent laws.
Unless these cities are on Indian Reservations wouldn’t they still have to follow state laws? The only way this would work is if they got the federal government to (illegally) ignore crimes committed in these cities. Also, if anything they do spills out of these cities they can still be sued. If you dump shit in the river it’s gonna flow downstream. Incredibly stupid idea.
It’d be incredibly based for people to be able to have a little store front or workshop in their home and vise versa. Instead we’re going to get Temu quality nuclear reactors, robot whorehouses, and ketamine kiosks.
They’ve pushed this nonsense on developing countries. Notably [Honduras’s Supreme Court struck it down.](https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/honduras-top-court-declares-self-governing-zede-zones-unconstitutional-2024-09-20/) So that’s where the bar is. Can our legal system prove itself to not be more corrupt than Honduras?
Remember when Trump said he’d build new cities in the Midwest with flying cars taxis? Like 1 year ago exactly?
A city with lower taxes, zero zoning and fewer business regulations would be this sub’s dream if it wasn’t trump suggesting this idea.
One of the proposed places for this city is the presidio, a small federal land carve out inside San Francisco, building a “Freedom city” there is exactly what that city needs to save itself from its own nimby government.
Or we could just keep hating on the idea because trump.
https://preview.redd.it/aabl9mcy3cne1.jpeg?width=2360&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=30ee7ae820f396cc92aab99b6442f412adab76cd
Ideally all cities/local government would be privately owned.
I’m all for having all of the libertarian freaks gather in one place and poison themselves with radiation, untested drugs, and manufacturing waste.
My only stipulations are:
1. Needs to be 100% privately funded.
2. Needs to be far from major waterways.
Good Lord
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pr%C3%B3spera
Guess their attempt to do this very same thing in Honduras isn’t working out so well.
Italian style city states? We’ll romanticize them as Florence, Venice and Milan, forgetting that they were always attacking one another.