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Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by kwere on Friday August 25, 2023 @07:07PM (#37268149)
such places would be flooded by desperate people in millions, creating slum town around it, a good breeding ground for crime. South Africa, once a functioning country got "invaded" by Zimbabweans escaping their hellhole, distorting the labour market and creating tension/crime. Too many people, unless you create hundreds of such experiments around the world.
Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by wolverine876 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:08AM (#37269860)
> South Africa, once a functioning country

A functioning country for a few white people; hell for everyone else.

Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by nradov on Saturday August 26, 2023 @12:26AM (#37269935)
South Africa was still functional after the end of apartheid. It really only became a failed state during the Zuma administration. Despite the history of institutionalized racism the country had enormous potential, but sadly a few corrupt politicians sacrificed the future of the country for their own benefit.
Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by wolverine876 on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:33AM (#37270362)
> South Africa was still functional after the end of apartheid.

It wasn't functional before the end of apartheid. 'Functional for a small minority' != 'functional country'.

Re:The Silicon Valley Elite Who Want to Build a City from Sc... by weard_beard on Saturday August 26, 2023 @02:17PM (#37275398)
So... America from 1850 to 1920. If you can anticipate and scale up industrial production to meet the wave of immigration and not just pen them up in refugee camps you have yourself another BRICS nation.