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I have a better name for it, "Delta City".

Check out the pop culture classic, RoboCop, which besides being a popcorn chewing action film, contains a rather cynical, but prescient, view on the future of corporations and privatization of public interests.

For those unfamiliar or don't recall, in the film, the mayor signs a deal with the mega-corporation Omni Consumer Products (OCP) will be allowed to turn the run-down sections of Detroit into a high-end utopia called Delta City. Much fun, crime and corruption ensues.

Sidewalk Labs wants to make a better world for us. Ha. "I'll buy that for a dollar."




Paul Verhoeven is very prescient.


Not just Paul Verhoeven but the writers Neumeier and Miner, as well.

"You'll see that we've gambled...

...in markets usually regarded as nonprofit.

Hospitals. Prisons. Space exploration.

I say, good business is where you find it."

-OCP's Senior Vice President Richard "Dick" Jones


I disagree with the sentiment around space exploration. Having government involved to support the science is very valuable, but private enterprise has driven exploration for a long time and hopefully could open frontiers more quickly.

I vastly agree with the sentiment on prisons and hospitals, however. Prisons in particular make me so angry I could explode. Feels like a fundamental violation of the moral imperative upon which our society exists.




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