Elon's Prototype Community Of Tomorrow, Redux
May 3, 2025 10:51 AM Subscribe
In Texas, the small unincorporated community of Boca Chica Village looks to incorporate as "Starbase, Texas" - a town that be focused around the needs of one company and the main employer - SpaceX. (SLPolitico)
SpaceX and company towns previously on the Blue.
SpaceX and company towns previously on the Blue.
This old libertarian fantasy is unmaintainable legacy civilization, we'll just rewrite it.
posted by Rat Spatula at 11:18 AM on May 3
posted by Rat Spatula at 11:18 AM on May 3
As cool as I think OG EPCOT is (the original planned community), I can’t imagine Walt Disney would have a been a good or fair landlord.
Elon musk is no Walt Disney. I have to think he’d be even worse.
posted by gc at 11:45 AM on May 3 [3 favorites]
Elon musk is no Walt Disney. I have to think he’d be even worse.
posted by gc at 11:45 AM on May 3 [3 favorites]
Whether Walt Disney would have been a decent landlord is a valid debate. But I at least have to applaud his goal. From the beginning, EPCOT was envisioned as an honest to goodness community.
In contrast, Starbase is envisioned as a power grab and a tax break.
posted by zooropa at 12:18 PM on May 3 [4 favorites]
In contrast, Starbase is envisioned as a power grab and a tax break.
posted by zooropa at 12:18 PM on May 3 [4 favorites]
nothing bad has ever happened in a company town
posted by Sperry Topsider at 12:26 PM on May 3 [7 favorites]
posted by Sperry Topsider at 12:26 PM on May 3 [7 favorites]
For if it happen there, none dare call it badness.
posted by Rat Spatula at 1:06 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
posted by Rat Spatula at 1:06 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
Isn't Celebration, Florida the effective Disney company town (in that it is still the largest landowner), with problems of its own?
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 1:56 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
posted by They sucked his brains out! at 1:56 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
They keep saying Gulf of Mexico when surely they mean Gulf of America. If they’re not careful, then glorious leader will try to have them deported to their native country. Wait, that’s probably the US. Well, isn’t that a conundrum?.
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 2:57 PM on May 3 [1 favorite]
posted by JustSayNoDawg at 2:57 PM on May 3 [1 favorite]
They keep saying Gulf of Mexico
Oh god, now my blood is boiling again. I had forgotten that under the deluge of horrible inflicted by Elon and his White House lackey.
My first hints of the evils of SpaceX was that their propulsion test stand was in Waco. I should have realized how bad it could become. That and my brief tour of their main facility back then - it was clear to me they didn’t want their workers to leave there, either.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 4:28 PM on May 3 [1 favorite]
Oh god, now my blood is boiling again. I had forgotten that under the deluge of horrible inflicted by Elon and his White House lackey.
My first hints of the evils of SpaceX was that their propulsion test stand was in Waco. I should have realized how bad it could become. That and my brief tour of their main facility back then - it was clear to me they didn’t want their workers to leave there, either.
posted by Flight Hardware, do not touch at 4:28 PM on May 3 [1 favorite]
Sixteen tons, whaddya get? Another day older, and you're deeper in debt.
posted by gimonca at 4:51 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
posted by gimonca at 4:51 PM on May 3 [3 favorites]
They keep saying Gulf of Mexico when surely they mean Gulf of America.
So, I saw this just over a month ago about 1/4 mile from the Gulf Mexico.
I was, admittedly, heated when I saw it. Then I saw who it was "sponsored" by.
Someone is a better troll than I am. (Billboard is already down and it was in a direction most tourists would not have seen it, FWIW.)
I am sure that I will fall into the general Metafilter zeitgeist on this idea, so I don't have much to add, other than my org had spent 1000s of man hours at a nearby SpaceX facility and were never allowed to eat at the cafeteria, as the cafeteria was completely subsidized (by US Gov, I think?). Closest place for our team was a 20 minute drive.
Why, yes. I am spitting nails.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 5:12 PM on May 3
So, I saw this just over a month ago about 1/4 mile from the Gulf Mexico.
I was, admittedly, heated when I saw it. Then I saw who it was "sponsored" by.
Someone is a better troll than I am. (Billboard is already down and it was in a direction most tourists would not have seen it, FWIW.)
I am sure that I will fall into the general Metafilter zeitgeist on this idea, so I don't have much to add, other than my org had spent 1000s of man hours at a nearby SpaceX facility and were never allowed to eat at the cafeteria, as the cafeteria was completely subsidized (by US Gov, I think?). Closest place for our team was a 20 minute drive.
Why, yes. I am spitting nails.
posted by a non mouse, a cow herd at 5:12 PM on May 3
Surely they mean Galt’s Gulch. Because that has always worked out great!
posted by misterpatrick at 5:23 PM on May 3
posted by misterpatrick at 5:23 PM on May 3
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