Crazy rich ideas...

[verreauxi]

Gotta love the creativity, despite in many cases a general lack of details/specifics or an understanding of human emotional and social needs.


We have the city of Telosa, currently, not built and no location chosen, but the billionaire behind it expects a population of 1,000,000 in about 1-2 decades.



Here's some pictures of what it will look like:


A bit of a Barbican Centre feel to it:


Full website here: https://cityoftelosa.com/



Then we have Seasteaders...can you imagine living in that small pod off the coast of Panama for the rest of your life:


Full website here: https://www.seasteading.org/about/





Then, of course, there is Jeff Bezos who wants to colonize outer space, he calls them O'Neil colonies. And each one holds a million people.




Here's what it looks like inside:


I can't help but wonder what the tax structure looks like on that colony...Do you think corporations will pay their fair share of taxes? And I wonder who would be president?
More about Blue Origin here: https://www.blueorigin.com/about-blue


But if you don't want a brand new city, or to live on a small pod on the ocean, or go into space...well, the rich have an answer for that: go underground with a luxury bunker:





There is still room available in the Indiana bunker! How would you like to spend the rest of your days underground with a bunch of survivalists in Indiana...it sells itself!



Full website here: https://terravivos.com/index.html



And someone (likely a rich person) was very smart and created a craigslist/Facebook market place for the super wealthy. It's called Jamesedition (website: JamesEdition.com)

Here you can buy a gold AK-47 chair and lamp set:

 

[Tigger]

Hopefully them outer space ones are kopite colonies.

 

[PaddyJames]

Could you even be arsed though. Just retire and live the rest of your life surrounded by supermodels and rum

 

[The Missing Lineker]

I had a crazy idea that was gonna make me rich but never took off sadly. No one seemed interested in luminous sun dials for night time use.

 

[Furey1878]

I can't help but wonder what the tax structure looks like on that colony...Do you think corporations will pay their fair share of taxes? And I wonder who would be president?
More about Blue Origin here: https://www.blueorigin.com/about-blue

I can only assume you are a big fan of the Star Wars prequels?

 

[PaddyJames]

I basically invented BBC IPlayer in my head about 20 years ago. Didn't tell anyone but that doesn't matter because low and behold they nick my idea. What do I get for it? Letters telling my to pay my tv licence and Laura Kuensbberg smirking in my face. Thats gratitude for you.

 

[Blue 1]

Anything to get out of paying their goddamn taxes. Worms.

 

[ste d' indica]

Pissing around building fantasy new worlds instead of paying their taxes to fix the one we have. Knobheads the lot of them.

 

[SerenityNigh]

We have the city of Telosa, currently, not built and no location chosen, but the billionaire behind it expects a population of 1,000,000 in about 1-2 decades.

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Full website here: https://cityoftelosa.com/

This is my favorite. No chance it will succeed on the scale presented, but what level of success is required for this to be a "success?"

 

[verreauxi]

This is my favorite. No chance it will succeed on the scale presented, but what level of success is required for this to be a "success?"

I can’t see it happening due to bureaucracy, NIMBYism, and lack of good water supply.

 

[SerenityNigh]

I can’t see it happening due to bureaucracy, NIMBYism, and lack of good water supply.

They will pick a state with laws that allow this, and probably a favorable land acquisition/property tax offer from the locals, so #1 and #2 are unlikely, but poor planning/lack of water/etc along with a drying up of investment (pun intended, if well received) will be enough to kill this. It's quite amazing that a city like Las Vegas can exist, and this would require a similar investment/infrastructure, a multi-billion dollar affair. I will watch this with great interest and visit its dead remains with great interest, if my good health allows.

 

[verreauxi]

They will pick a state with laws that allow this, and probably a favorable land acquisition/property tax offer from the locals, so #1 and #2 are unlikely, but poor planning/lack of water/etc along with a drying up of investment (pun intended, if well received) will be enough to kill this. It's quite amazing that a city like Las Vegas can exist, and this would require a similar investment/infrastructure, a multi-billion dollar affair. I will watch this with great interest and visit its dead remains with great interest, if my good health allows.

We should start a betting pool as to which state they will eventually pick.

 

[Methuselah]

Ghost town of the future. Can't be Michigan then as they already have some.

 

[tommye]

Then we have Seasteaders...can you imagine living in that small pod off the coast of Panama for the rest of your life:

Full website here: https://www.seasteading.org/about/

Sounds perfect

 

[SerenityNigh]

We should start a betting pool as to which state they will eventually pick.

I will be thinking about this all day now. The hard part is figuring out how they will build a "world class city" or whatever they claimed. You need a sufficient amount of human/social infrastructure to build this, so it seems like it can't be too far from an existing city. I think water can potentially be solved by emerging technologies in recycling water, but it has to be near at least two of these three: sufficient solar, sufficient wind, clean water. Ideally it would hit all three, but then are you building this out in Nebraska? I will commit too much of my free time now thinking about this. (Tennessee and Kentucky to mind, but I wonder if there's sufficient access to land in these states.)