Down in Texas there’s a place called Proto-Town that is a newly established community built along the lines of a business incubator.
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Down in Texas there’s a place called Proto-Town that is a newly established community built along the lines of a business incubator. It’s a bit stranger than that though. The people who set out to do this want to create a new society. Instead of a “back to the land” movement, they’re a “back to hardware” movement. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/the-texas-town-backed-by-ivanka-trump-s-billionaire-brother-in-law-at-the-frontier-of-tech-elite/ar-AA21H5Gc?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds #tech #society
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Down in Texas there’s a place called Proto-Town that is a newly established community built along the lines of a business incubator. It’s a bit stranger than that though. The people who set out to do this want to create a new society. Instead of a “back to the land” movement, they’re a “back to hardware” movement. https://www.msn.com/en-in/news/world/the-texas-town-backed-by-ivanka-trump-s-billionaire-brother-in-law-at-the-frontier-of-tech-elite/ar-AA21H5Gc?ocid=finance-verthp-feeds #tech #society
In the WSJ it’s described in a way that sounds almost like a religious farm community, but the belief system is startup culture: “[Proto-Town] serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there. Founders and employees live together in the house or nearby trailer parks they call man camps. Workers at the dozen firms on site often eat meals as a group. Many work on their startups from morning to night.”
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In the WSJ it’s described in a way that sounds almost like a religious farm community, but the belief system is startup culture: “[Proto-Town] serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there. Founders and employees live together in the house or nearby trailer parks they call man camps. Workers at the dozen firms on site often eat meals as a group. Many work on their startups from morning to night.”
@KerryMitchell Techbros reinvent serfs? Company towns.
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@KerryMitchell Techbros reinvent serfs? Company towns.
@Lightfighter Well… my impression is that even if a bit of money is coming from wealthy tech bros, these people are doing this to themselves. It’s not a company town in the old sense. These people seem like idealistic communalists who would have been Shakers or Hutterites or something along those lines in the past, but today’s gods are tech and money.
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@Lightfighter Well… my impression is that even if a bit of money is coming from wealthy tech bros, these people are doing this to themselves. It’s not a company town in the old sense. These people seem like idealistic communalists who would have been Shakers or Hutterites or something along those lines in the past, but today’s gods are tech and money.
@KerryMitchell When you lose your job, not only do you lose your money, your Healthcare, but you also become homeless. That's pretty much the way company towns worked. I'm sure there are plenty of differences as well.
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@KerryMitchell When you lose your job, not only do you lose your money, your Healthcare, but you also become homeless. That's pretty much the way company towns worked. I'm sure there are plenty of differences as well.
@Lightfighter These people aren’t employees though, they’re “founders”.
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@Lightfighter These people aren’t employees though, they’re “founders”.
@KerryMitchell From the article, there are employees as well.
