Próspera was supposed to be a privatized, Silicon Valley-funded paradise — but it’s a hard sell for the neighbors.

But where the business inducements enter unprecedented terrain is health and safety regulation. Próspera won’t impose rules so much as curate prix fixe and à la carte menus of rules.

Delgado has held talks with a controversial gene-therapy startup, Minicircle, to open a clinic in Próspera. It will be funded by a “network of crypto investors,” according to its CEO, Machiavelli Davis. Davis runs in biohacking circles, a set best known for self-administering untested gene therapies.

  • Awoo [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Very when it's coming from them, it's eerily close to Lenin's analysis though.

      • Awoo [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        Huh, you're right. Fascinating.

        The bourgeoisie using material analysis and lenin's tactics for their own interests terrifies me. These people are the most dangerous people in the world.

          • Awoo [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Marxist horror movies and psychological thriller series would all just be about capitalism.

    • Frank [he/him, he/him]
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      3 years ago

      It cannot be overstated how important motivation is. Most communist leaders, whatever their other failings, were motivated to help working people. That was the goal, even if they got rich along the way. Libertarians, on the other hand, are motivated by the desire to fuck children.