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Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly.
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Elite economists have been promoting a model of governance resembling nothing so much as a game of Monopoly.
Elon Musk wants to create his own city. Here’s how that could work By Samantha Masunaga, Los Angeles Times Published: April 11, 2021, 6:02am Share: FILE - In this March 9, 2020, file photo, Tesla and SpaceX Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk speaks at the SATELLITE Conference and Exhibition in Washington. Musk has tweeted his way into trouble with another federal agency, this time the National Labor Relations Board. The board on Thursday, March 25, 2021 found that a Musk tweet in May of 2018 unlawfully threatened employees with loss of stock options if they decided to be...
Sexual exploitation survivor fights to recuperate lost social assistance funds 7 April 2021 Reading time: 1 min 30 s By Michael Boriero – Local Journalism Initiative Reporter Isabelle Simpson, a sexual abuse and exploitation survivor, feels like she has been abandoned by the Quebec government, as she continues to live through a financial nightmare that began several years ago when her abuser, who also acted as her pimp, left her thousands of dollars in debt. Simpson, alongside Centre d’aide et de lutte contre les agressions à caractère sexuel (CALACS) Agre...
Starbase, Texas: Can Elon Musk really create his own city near SpaceX’s Gulf Coast launchpad? The SpaceX CEO is hardly the first entrepreneur to think about forming a city. The sky begins to light up before sunrise over a prototype of the SpaceX Starship at the SpaceX launch facility in Boca Chica.(Smiley N. Pool / Staff Photographer) By Tribune News Service The secluded Texas beachside community of Boca Chica Village was once a haven for retirees, snowbirds and outdoorsy people who enjoyed dirt biking, fishing or lounging near the water. Today, traffic backs up the lone highway out of the ...
A bill in the works would turn over large tracts of Nevada to tech companies, allowing them to build—and run—their own towns.