Premium Episode 204: Prospera, City of the Future feat Riley Quinn
Added 2023-03-15 03:12:28 +0000 UTCCome with us to a utopian city on a Honduran island, founded by private companies intent on a mix of libertarianism, venture capitalism, crypto and, less consciously, neo-colonialism. The story of Prospera involves suing the government of Honduras, conducting unregulated medical experiments and water disputes. It features an assorted cast of wealthy, goateed failsons and Habsburgs. Our guest writer is Riley Quinn of the Trashfuture podcast.
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Music by Pontus Berghe. Editing by Corey Klotz.
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This episode unlocked my deeply repressed memories of the fact that Dusan Matuska did a talk about Bitcoin at my highschool, I might not recover from this.
2023-05-27 22:55:41 +0000 UTCWhy do you think he said "vaguely" ? Was Allende's father a coal miner ? Why this comment ?
Riley Bloomer-Ludwig
2023-03-24 17:36:24 +0000 UTCStarting to believe QAnon exists to make voters believe that anything that inconveniences the wealthiest, most politically well-connected people literally means the end of the world.
Kevin Christensen
2023-03-21 16:18:33 +0000 UTCNot much info out there on this dodgy endeavour. Found one article linking it back to some UK usual suspects: https://www.thenational.scot/politics/20267661.rishi-sunaks-beloved-charter-cities-pose-huge-threat-democracy/
Nèv
2023-03-17 21:50:28 +0000 UTClol of course Patrik Schumacher is involved in this
Terrence Hector
2023-03-17 14:55:48 +0000 UTCThis episode explained to me what 45 was talking about when he was promising those 10 new cities with flying cars. I wonder who gave him this idea.
2023-03-17 00:25:11 +0000 UTCThey covered this in a 2013 This American Life. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/483/self-improvement-kick/act-two-0
couchpatrol
2023-03-16 11:07:28 +0000 UTCLibertarians keep trying to do bioshock
lowpolyzoe
2023-03-16 07:51:56 +0000 UTCIs this... the plot to Bioshock?
Megan Massagee
2023-03-16 02:08:05 +0000 UTCWhat if Propsero were a lady?
Null_null
2023-03-16 00:17:07 +0000 UTCI don't think they're against improving zoning laws. I think their overall point is that searching for a neoliberal solution to a problem caused by neoliberalism is never going to solve the core problem. And they're right.
Null_null
2023-03-16 00:16:47 +0000 UTCI know dunking on YIMBYs is cool, but like, 1) San Francisco has objectively onerous zoning laws and 2) San Francisco has objectively high homelessness. Propsera is a total horror-show but it's not complete bullshit to say that bad policies can have a very bad impact on people and we should try to avoid them
Sopuii
2023-03-15 20:34:11 +0000 UTCDescribing Manuel Zelaya as having been couped for being "vaguely left-wing" is definitely buying his bullshit, considering his plantation-owning father had striking farmers roasted alive in a bread oven and $400 million just happened to disappear from the national budget when he was in charge
P S
2023-03-15 19:46:41 +0000 UTCStartup bros yearn for the kleinstaaterei
Beej
2023-03-15 18:45:56 +0000 UTCJust listened to the end of Hell on Earth where they ponder what’s going to come out of the emerging poly crisis of the 21st century. And I fear prospera is gonna be the answer to our poly crisis as capitalism was the answer to the poly crisis of the 17th century.
Beej
2023-03-15 18:40:21 +0000 UTC
