• Wrufieotnak@feddit.org
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    Never heard of EPCOT before, quickly scanned over the Wikipedia article:

    what’s the problem of that theme park?

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      Before he died, the idea of EPCOT was to create his vision of an actual city, not just a park attraction. I read a quote from him about it that seems very much in the vein of Mussolini’s idea of fascism as the fusion of corporate and state power,

      “There will be no landowners and therefore no voting control. People will rent houses instead of buying them, and at modest rentals. There will be no retirees; everyone must be employed.”

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        10 hours ago

        Oh yeah they actually did make that Disney Town, it was a dystopian nightmare and failed horribly.

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        Aahh, see? Now that is more problematic than the article about a folkloric world theme park I read.

        But it’s also not exactly new, company towns were already a sad part of our reality. Luckily we got over it, but rich people of course always want to get back to it.

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          We never got over it, they just use 401ks to control our futures now, and corporate owned housing is why rents are too high for us to do anything but work, eat, scroll, and sleep. If we stop to protest we’re in danger of homelessness.

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            At this point there are only two rational viewpoints on the world situation.

            1. The system is broken and needs to be fixed
            2. The system is working as intended and must be destroyed

            I aint exactly Robbie Rotten singing “We Are Number 1” if you catch my cold.