World Without Democracy News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

It is easy to mock the absurdity of California Forever, the new city that a group of tech billionaires want to build amid cattle pastures 60 miles north of San Francisco. Its wealthy backers frame the project—envisioned as a mega suburb with dense housing and walkable streets set on 60,000 rural acres—as an innovative solution to California’s housing shortage. But their bumbling and villainous antics may ensure it never gets built.The particulars of this caper veer into the ridiculous. Flannery

If these Silicon Valley plutocrats have their way, a swath of Solano County will be transformed into their own nation-state.

From start-up countries to gated communities, privately ruled zones can sidestep taxes, regulation, and democratic rule itself.

Quinn Slobodian’s new book shimmers with libertarian dreams but fails to demonstrate that zones are splintering national governments.

This is less a diagnosis of the fragmentation of capitalism than a compendium of anarcho-capitalists’ fever dreams