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Cities where people work for the company that own the town means the money they spend pretty much goes back to the company that gives them a salary, an absolute ethical nightmare
no sir, they would cut you from the next salary for what you have spent/consumed...so that you and the Company can make savings on tax paid to the government
Company towns of the Industrial Age took full advantage of this. They marked up prices of goods and rent enough that all the money they paid workers went back to them. Some took it even a step further and paid workers with fake currency that could only be spent within the company. God forbid you get fired or quit due to the abhorrent working conditions, or couldn’t afford the rent because of them bleeding you dry, as you then end up on the streets with nothing but the clothes on your back.
Elon's town is almost exactly the same as what mining companies did in the early 1900s. They would build towns with houses, supermarkets etc. for their employees to live in. These mining companies would then pay their employees with fake currency that could ONLY be used in that town and couldn't be converted to any other currency, so employees couldn't quit or leave the town.
Well, as long as he doesn't do the "you can only use my currency in my stores" thing, just living in a little town your employers created isn't a terrible idea, especially if it's that close and significantly cheaper than surrounding areas. 🤷🏻♀
@@LadyBeyondTheWall No, it's still a terrible idea, because now your housing is entirely dependent on your employer and if your employer threatens to fire you they are also threatening to render your homeless and force you to leave the town you live in. Not to mention the fact that "significantly cheaper than surrounding areas" is entirely up to the whims of your employer who can raise the prices of both rent and products in the town (either directly if they run the shops or indirectly if they rent the land to shop owners). The company will also be able to easily monitor your every move. Imagine your boss asks if you can come into work for an extra shift. You say no. He says "Why not? I can see you haven't left town. It won't take more than 5 minutes to drive on down." That's dystopian nightmare fuel.
My great grandparents fought in the street to defeat oil barons running feudal style cities with their own bespoke currency and we are just like "okay Facebook, why not!?"
That's why it's important for the media companies to talk to us about what the Kardashians are doing, or suggest the pyramids were built by aliens. If people knew the history of the past century, they'd be a fighting a hell of a lot harder. But most people don't know any of that, so they're easy to scam. That is absolutely by design. Curate your media, kids. It's easier than ever.
Hey Danny! I usually don't comment but thought it was important to mention to you and others: just letting you know that foods like Sunday's dog food put dogs at risk for things like nutritional DCM (a heart disease that is preventable in breeds that aren't likely to get it) and pancreatic due to the fat levels. A lot of these dog foods don't even do the bare minimum of feeding trials. These companies can afford to hire nutritionists, do studies, feeding trials, and remain on the side of wsava complacent guidelines and they refuse to. We all want more options on what to feed our dogs, but grain-free foods or foods with a lot of legumes can cause as much of an issue if they're not formulated correctly. Grains and the like are good for dogs that aren't allergic to it, and these foods abuse the fact that we associate human grade with good. If you want to feed your dogs fresh food, consult a nutritional vet. Not a regular vet, as most vets aren't super knowledgeable in proper nutrition to guide you on that. Sorry for the long message, I just want to avoid people losing their dogs to foods made by people who don't care
Hi! Do you know anything about The Honest Kitchen brand? I feed my dog a food from their brand that says it’s human grade-but I checked and it has no legumes in the ingredients, and it does include grains. The specific food is “Whole Food Clusters, Whole Grain, Chicken & Oat Recipe, Small Breed.”
Danny, you have to build Greg Town as a competitor to Kurtis Town. I’ve heard they’re growing quicker by the day, we don’t want them becoming the fastest growing army on the internet.
Seems like people who want to build towns might have too much money. Maybe they should have higher taxes, actually put money into existing towns. Just a thought.
Maybe we can gamify it to get it trending among billionaires - the person who paid the most taxes gets a park they can name, then a library, then a community centre, then a school, then a hospital, then a shopping centre and then a sport stadium - any billionnaire who paid the most taxes after 7 years can be declared the "winner" of that town ^_^
6:45 They weren't temporary, they just tried to claim they were temporary because they didn't have the proper building permits for a permanent structure. The concrete foundations clearly indicated they were intended to be permanent, which is what the article was suggesting.
corporations trying to build their own cities for their employees shows a distinct lack of knowledge of their own country's history. people tried that already. it didnt work out. there were deaths.
9:00 fun fact I learned when I wanted to be an architect: there is a good reason most buildings are all square, it’s because when you have all those weird rounded corners it makes designing rooms REALLY hard, because they end up with all these wonky curved areas which don’t accommodate pretty much any pre existing furniture
as an architecture student, theres probably a couple other reasons as well. 1. while not impossible, making the building structurally sound is much more difficult when the shape is not consistent 2. it would be extremely expensive to fabricate the shape for each individual piece of the building. for example, concrete buildings tend to be the same shape throughout, as the form work is cheaper if you can reuse it 3. in the way shown in this video, the facade being that seamless would be... near impossible. it's obviously been done before, but having a building shaped like that would be a major wind/water issue, and a facade that smooth would lead to damages (both visually from water stain, and physically from wind loads). 4. as @bonnie1303 said, you would have to custom build EVERYTHING. and if the walls curve as shown, there would be no 90 degree wall to floor juncture, meaning that much of the floor plan space would be completely unusable anyways sorry for the rant :P but yeah most of the buildings shown in that city would be... completely unfeasible for an entire city to look like LOL
Ah, was looking for this answer. i thought they meant envisioned but apparently they do mean slightly different things: "The words envisage and envision share the same Latin root meaning to see. Both words are very similar in meaning but do have slight shades of difference. If you envision something happening, you can see it happening in your mind. I'm sure you can envision yourself graduating from high school! If you envisage something, you can imagine it, but not necessarily see it. You can envisage world peace, but it may be harder to envision it."
I like to think all these headlines are fully literal and all these rich people are building these cities by hand "Kanye West tried to build a city in Wyoming" really hits different when you picture him laying every brick by hand
@@manboy4720I originally replied “wyeezyoming” to this comment but I realize now that that was your joke and I was just doing a worse version of it. I apologize and I appreciate your joke. I love you
I love that Kanye see's Tatooine in Star Wars, a lawless wasteland. See's Obi-Wan call it "The most retched hive of scum and villainy" and Kanye is just like "Damn, that's the kind of city I want to live in."
As some have already commented, the "live where you work" cities were popular during the period of the gold and silver mining boom. It did not go well. It was a giant scam. Which were built by the companies that owned the gold and silver mines, of course. That's what a couple of these remind me of. They had their own currency and everything.
The hard, crunchy texture of most kibbles is actually very good for dog's teeth. Especially if they don't let you brush them or anything, kibble can help scrape away the tartar on their teeth. Also, I didn't hear any grains in the ingredient list, and can't find any listed on their website. Make sure your dogs have grain in their diet! Grain free foods have been linked to dilated cardiomyopathy, which is basically when the heart gets so big that it has trouble contracting, and it eventually leads to heart failure/death. I hope this helps!
@@slartybartfastDogs are omnivores, not carnivores, and grains have fat, carbohydrates, fiber, and antioxidants, as well as the hard texture when used in dog food, while dogs don’t go and eat grains in nature, they would often eat it in the animals they would catch.
@@jadebeason7552 I'm pretty sure most of the animals they would have caught weren't eating that much grain anyway, more like grass and leaves. And I also saw that grains can cause allergies in dogs. Yes they are omnivores but they mostly eat meat and sometimes grass to aid in digestion, not grains. And definitely not in the quantity they have in some dog food
@@slartybartfast dogs are not obligate carnivores. Also 'grains' isn't a biological thing. it's a term we made up to describe a bunch of unrelated plants. your entire argument is basically 'yeah but i feel like grains are bad for dogs'
@@elfappo9330 All I was saying is that from what I could find, grains can be beneficial for some things but also could have downsides such as the allergy thing. And I didn't see anything saying they need grains. And dogs may not be obligate carnivores, but their teeth and digestive system is definitely more intended for digesting meat
FUN FACT: Disney's EPCOT center was originally gonna be one of these cities! They were common during the 19th-20th century, and walt Disney had planned on a city of the future. He of course died before he could begin actually making the city, and his execs and brother thought the city was a bad idea so just built a park instead. If you wanna know more than Defunctland has a great video about the topic!
@@z.m.stewart1996They already have people living in the parks with those tacky housing community they built a few years back (watching a few of the house tours made me depressed on how awful it was designed)
For the city planning aspect mentioned at 10:15, yes builders plan all of that out ahead of time, where the residential area is, commercial, industrial etc. They didn't do that when we were first settling/stealing the land, but any new development has a shitload of planning before it's built,
Hi, someone who grew up in Menlo Park, California before it became what is now known as 'Zucktown' here. We lived in the low-income apartments next to Facebook HQ. Can confirm that the entire area is becoming a gentrified mess. They started with building more office spaces and parking lots. Next came brand new apartments for what I can assume is the employees. And next, came us. They gave us a notice that they were tearing down our apartments to build brand new ones with more commodities. Sounds great, except they didn't let many of us go back when they finished. So here all of us are, scrambling to find a new place to rent. Except, rents in Menlo Park are $4000. We were one of the lucky ones who barely qualified for a mortgage for a new house. The same cannot be said for many other low-income families. I don't know what they plan to do with the rest of the area, and I am actually a little saddened. I lived there almost my entire life and seeing it change so much bothers me. I can only hope the changes don't negatively affect the remaining residents as much as it affected the rest of us. And actually, I didn't know about Zucktown despite having lived there until watching this video. Thanks for the great video, Danny. :)
Gentrification is disgusting. You always need low income housing. You never need high priced flats. Or any fancy housing really. No one needs overly fancy flats. There is no need for that at all. I'm sorry you guys got forced out of your homes.
As someone currently living and raising a family on a military base, it can be really bizarre and isolating when I dont leave base for a few days. It is definitely not always enjoyable to live and work in a fenced in area.
"Envisage" seems to be a more concrete, practical version of "envision" which is more metaphorical and abstract in nature - in case anyone was wondering.
The Facebook city said it would be 59 acres. For context, Baltimore is 59 THOUSAND acres. My suburban town is about 9,500 acres. The University of Maryland College Park campus is 1,340 acres. But 59 acres is supposed to be a city?
Maybe they think they're going to just build mega skyscrapers without any issue. So many of these stupid city plans from the rich I've followed are just doing something like that and slapping on it will be "self sustaining" somehow
11:05 if you’re wondering, it’s a joke about how architects will come up with ridiculous designs and make the engineers deal with actually making it possible
funny thing is that those reflective curve buildings will cause extremely concentrated areas of heat/radiation to the point that it’ll be a health hazard. it happened before with a building like this and they had to cover it bc it was melting cars and shit
That's true! I believe this is London's "The Shard." Supposedly, a reporter was on location discussing it's car-melting capability when he had to cut things short because his hair caught on fire.
Well now I'm wondering if somebody made a town full of buildings that curve in a way that reflects the heat away from the streets and like back upwards instead, would that make the town colder?
@@shadowshade904 yes actually. So there have actually been projects trying to increase roof and road reflectivity. However the mirror/reflective metal structure in not really one that’s been explored much, probably because it isn’t very economical. But yes convex structures would spread out rather than concentrate solar rays.
@@benjaminrobinson3842 I had to look it up but it’s actually the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ building in London. From the looks of it the shards sides aren’t curved. it’s concave curved reflective surfaces that would cause this issue. I didn’t know that about the reporter, that’s quite funny.
None of these futuristic cities are for us common people, like theyre all for the rich folk. Also these projects of making these futuristic cities serve like no practical purpose on why theyre there in the first place like Telosa, The Line, Egypts New New city, etc.
Quick note as a veterinarian- if you do choose to move your dog onto fresh food, even if if it's dried, you HAVE to be feeding them normal dog food along side it. I beg you to remember an animal is not a human and they can't get everything they need to live healthily from a "fresh food" diet. Dog and cat food is manufactured specifically to tick the boxes of health in your pet. Those "synthetic nutrients" ARE nutarians made to help you pet stay healthy. Fresh food, even dried, is great! It is NOT a replacement.
Not to be rude at all but like, they would be eating only fresh food in the wild, right?? Again, not being sarcastic, genuinely asking: what would they be getting from kibble that they can't get from a well balanced fresh food diet and supplements?
@@Crabby-Abbythey wouldn’t be getting anything “in the wild” because dogs are domesticated animals. they couldn’t live without humans, any dogs that live “in the wild” likely have contact with humans and eat food scraps from them. not to mention a wild dog would be incredibly unhealthy.
@@graces1stpsata I mean, there are literally wild dogs though? Obviously not like a Chihuahua lol but there are plenty of relatives to the dog that live in the wild just fine. And they aren't unhealthy when their ecosystem isn't destroyed by humans. And PLENTY of cats live in the wild.
@@Crabby-Abbyjust adding to the convo. Dogs and Wolves have common ancestors, but are different animals. You may be under the impression that a “natural diet” for dogs is what wolves would eat. Which is not really the case. Dogs are canines that evolved alongside humans to adapt to how humans live with them. They are not living in the forest hunting and such. They live inside and on the outskirts of human settlements. Chihuahuas are a good example of this because they have been kept along humans since the 9th century, according to light googling. If you are interested in the topic “What happened to pre-contact dogs” by Trey the explainer is a great paleontology and archeology video explaining stuff like this but specifically about pre-European contact American dogs.
Urban planner here! You do in fact plan exactly what goes where before building a brand new city to ensure all the necessary infrastructure is in place, not a bunch of film studios though. Which is why it's wild to me that Kanye was supposedly hiring everybody but urban planners...probably the reason why he's failing 💀
I was thinking about the fact that there is a parklot, but no water treatment plants, no trash collection and disposal plans, no hospital or healthcare facilities, and no firefighting facilities. Like, I'm glad the cars are safe in a city that totally could have been walkable with public transportation.
@@AdaireKrickets When you start to play city sims and stuff you really appreciate how much planning goes into it, it's so easy to fuck up it's a miracle some of them run as smoothly as they do Of course an out of touch billonare wouldn't know that...
Hershey, PA was founded as a corporate town, started by Hershey's of course. There were some real positives at the time, modern amenities in the houses plus free school for the kids of employees as well as free vocational schooling to orphaned and underprivileged people to learn to work in the factory. I'm sure there was also shady stuff going on (I'm in no means an expert on this) but let's be real, there's no way I trust Zuck and Kanye to even consider schooling as a concept for their towns, let alone have them be free.
These sort of places are pretty common around the world, especially in areas where there isn’t a lot of alternative housing. I remember watching a video about a town in Japan owned by Toyota for its employees that has like a whole underground network for robots. I think the weird thing about the ones in the videos is that the actual owner of the company is so involved and that’s usually why it fails. They’re not trying to make actual good housing for their employees, they’re wanting to become the ruler of a town completely designed by them.
I worked for a dome construction company for about 3 years. We spent most of out time remodeling living rooms and backyards with enlarged, semicircle sitting areas. Built exactly 0 full domes.
Hey! I just wanted to point out the thing Danny said about the “planning out” cities before building them. It’s actually called urbanism. It was pretty popular in Ancient Rome and Greece, where they would plan out exactly where each buildings are going to be, instead of building houses one by one. Thank you for allowing me to yap about stuff from my freshman art history class. Hope it made sense.
11:10 yes, it is every architect's dream. ever since i decided i wanted to be an architect and started studying it, i have been having dreams about these exact buildings.
i mean in the us they certainly influence it but there's a reason a bunch of them are leaving washington and other states because they are against the high taxes in the area.
haha I went to that sponsor's site. The biggest red flag: they do not have prices everywhere. They want you really emotionally invested before you see any costs!
@@daniellet4218just checked, you’re right! People claiming its a scam, high prices and terrible customer services as well as it apparently causing stomach problems. ALL of the recent reviews are 1 star, literally all of them
Henry Ford trying building a city in Brazil back in the 20s. Sort of a wild story, and the city was akin to a ghost town in the early 2000s. The name's Fordlandia (Fordland), very interesting to see how this remains a trend among large companies to this day, and it seems like it still doesn't work out lol
Oh man, I bet all those miners at the Boring Company are going to love the idea of living in a company-controlled town. Absolutely no historical precedent to draw upon to evaluate that decision.
My grandparents lived on Phillips 66 property.. they had a post office and schools... My grandpa was a chemist for Phillips so he lived and worked there....UNTIL... The plant blew up and altough he continued to work there, they had to literally pick up their house and move it to a different town!
I actually have some experience with communities built by corporations. There was one close to where I grew up, with the company having a lot of factories in different industries over a large compound, and they also built a lot of houses, a community pool and sports areas, even two schools (one of which I went to). It was actually once of the greenest and most peaceful neighbourhoods around, as they had people caring for the place, so the air always smelled really fresh. The factories were some distance away from the actual living areas. The school and pool and stuff was originally intended for the employees' families, but because the quality of the facilities were good they also attracted a lot of people who weren't related to the city. From what I heard it was quite safe for kids to play and run around, and also your house would depend on what position the employee worked in. I never really thought about it being kinda dystopian until now lol, it was so normal for me growing up.
Probably mostly that and some human trafficking thrown in to build that workforce. And probably some drug trafficking just because where you find one you often find the other. That 200person hole skeeved me the hell out.
Some of these sounded an awful lot like the good old company towns of the 1800-1900s. And by good old I mean they literally turned out horribly and we shouldn't repeat history like that :/
about how cities are built: there are different types of cities, some are organic like you said but when building a settlement like the romans did they actually had all of the areas in the city planned out, like the theatre, the market, etc.
Tech billionaires re-inventing the company town. The last time we had these, there was literal warfare, but it's probably fine this time. It'll work great, no machine guns required. See also Sorry To Bother You.
It sounds like a cartoonishly dull and depressing town, where everything is grey, and everyone is sluggish and lethargic. Like the kind of place the energetic character used to live in their backstory.
As an architecture student, I must say that the right thing to do when studying urbanism is to plan everything in the city, where things are heavily influence how the city functions. So yes, Akon was kind of right in planning, but I do think these buildings in this format will be every engineer's nightmare.
The fact that Kanye West tried to make a 200 person mass-grave called the ‘Yecosystem’ is incredible. (I say mass-grave because a 200 person mass-grave-esque hole isn’t a city, it’s something out of the bubonic plague, or if you want to call it that: an ultra-utilitarian underground zone.)
I mean, Walt Disney wanted to make Epcot a little civilization where he was basically a dictator, and then he died so they turned it into a tourist attraction
I actually lived in a tiny mining town my dad worked at for a few years, so corporations owning/running the places their employees live at probably happens more often than we'd think.
Epcot was originally supposed to be a socially engineered town. Also, remember when you were a kid and you would design your mansion on the back of the paper placemats? This is that.
Fun fact, in some small countries in west Africa, rich architects actually are planning and building really big complexes. Especially in Gambia and Senegal. I think it’s more of an apartment/housing complex with stores and stuff rather than an autonomous city but still. It’s a thing!
Surprisingly, dome shaped houses are not only not new, they're super environmentally friendly and safe when constructed correctly. Check out the super adobe eco domes from the CalEarth institute in Hesperia, CA, one of them apparently survived a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, which is kinda legit tbh.
Geodesic domes are also supposed to be really good in tornado-prone areas because the way they divert the high winds actually produces more of a downward pressure on the building than anything else. Or at least, that’s what I think I remember from learning about them like 15 years ago.
IDK some architecture people in the comments are saying they're incredibly impractical and expensive to make. No pre-existing doors, windows, furniture etc fit them and everything has to be custom made...don't really see how that's environmentally friendly. The dome also traps heat inside to the point of a health hazard someone said?
Towns run by companies sounds perfectly fine and I'm sure a quick search for "company towns" will not in anyway make me want to set things on fire with my mind.
For most cities in the world, yes. They were little groups of houses around a stream that continued on growing. A lot of American cities were fully planned out from the get go. Uninhabited land (for whatever reason) is used to blueprint a city atop
0:09 They’re now building a film set in Tonopah, Arizona because of him buying it…Its also become incredibly populated within 5 years, you used to have no neighbors for MILES. Now people are on top of each other…It’s awful. It was announced to us back in like 2015 that we were gonna be turned into a smart city and we had to accept that or leave.
Planning out all the building is actually pretty common for new towns and cities nowadays. There are a lot of planned cities where they already have everything planned and then just build it in stages. An advantage of planning everything from the start is that the urban planning can be really efficient which makes it a lot nicer for the people living there. You can make sure everything is in walking distance and that all the roads will be able to handle the necessary traffic.
This became a more popular idea after the second World War, when the population boom created a demand for more housing stock. Unfortunately for planning enthusiasts, it was impossible to control *everything* so the result would be a tidy central planned area surrounded by the typical ad hoc development of a conventionally-built city.
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
Reminds me how the past CEO of Chick-Fil-A made a town called Trilith, where film makers live and work at Trilith studios. Surprisingly a bunch of Marvel movies has been filmed there as well
On a serious note, corporations already do this with migrant workers. It's a very big problem in Canada, you have no idea just how unethical it is for your employer to also be your landlord. Trust me, corporations housing their workers should be illegal. It puts workers in positions where they can easily be, at the very least taken advantage of, and at the very worst, horribly abused.
9:59 there are actually some towns that are planned out! My hometown of Columbia, MD is a planned community that was developed by James Rouse, Edward Norton’s grandfather.
In Italy (Veneto, tbp) we have a city (pretty big too) where all of the employees of one dude decided to build houses to be closer to the main building of the factory. Now the dude is dead, but people still thinks of him like their major or smth. They still refer to it as "Alte Ceccato" (Ceccato being the name of the guy). And it's not even the first one! There's one called "Rosignano Solvay" and it's the same thing as the other one. People worked for Solvay and they started to live near it creating a city. There's also a beach with white foam made from the chemicals of the factory and people bathe in it (wild, I know). So yeah, Mr. Zucky could be onto something there 😅
10:14 im an urban planning student and planned cities are definitely a thing! A lot of cities started out as planned cities, especially capitals. The capital of Brazil is a good example.
As a former homeless person, I can confirm that all homeless people are, in fact, there because they don't like the shape of existing houses.
Should we lower rents by increasing housing density and therefore the supply? No, domes in the middle of the desert are the answer.
Dang, what new house shape did you choose then?
as a current homeless person, i will ONLY move into a shelter if it is dome shaped
@@f5tornado831 If it's not an octagon, it's not even worth looking at.
@@iamcode.4nah if it’s not an enneagram, it’s not even worth thinking about it
Alright Danny you can stop hiding that you are in fact, a secret billionaire. Go build us a city big boy.
It will be called "What's up" and everyone who moves there has to legally change their name to Greg
Nah everybody’s first name is What’s up and their last name is Greg
Or "Gregtropolis"
Kurtis has kurtis town, now we need GregCity, with craig sewers
Future Greg CIty?
Cities where people work for the company that own the town means the money they spend pretty much goes back to the company that gives them a salary, an absolute ethical nightmare
Sounds like Pullman in Chicago
no sir, they would cut you from the next salary for what you have spent/consumed...so that you and the Company can make savings on tax paid to the government
🎶"I owe my soul to the company store" 🎶
i don't think they really care about ethics though
Company towns of the Industrial Age took full advantage of this. They marked up prices of goods and rent enough that all the money they paid workers went back to them. Some took it even a step further and paid workers with fake currency that could only be spent within the company.
God forbid you get fired or quit due to the abhorrent working conditions, or couldn’t afford the rent because of them bleeding you dry, as you then end up on the streets with nothing but the clothes on your back.
Facebook trying to use "zucky" as a positive description is perhaps the funniest thing I've heard all day 😅
I really don't think they should try becuase the internet absolutely will ruin "zucky" in moments
@@artsyscrub3226 The second it is placed anywhere near any maternal term, it'll be all over.
@@lonesavior
Honestly they just need to say "have a zucky day" would send the internet into a frenzy...
“Hey, Zuck you Bob👋😃…”
“Zuck you Dave😄”
"This town, and everyone in it, zucks. 😁👍"
If Akoncity was a scam, does that make it... A Con City?
I'm glad people are making this joke
Another great Akon joke! Bless you!
I think you're on to something, considering the payment method being a whole new Con-rrency. kinda like BitCon
It was in the name the whole time...
they're using their own Con-rrency after all, you know, kinda like BitCon
Elon's town is almost exactly the same as what mining companies did in the early 1900s. They would build towns with houses, supermarkets etc. for their employees to live in. These mining companies would then pay their employees with fake currency that could ONLY be used in that town and couldn't be converted to any other currency, so employees couldn't quit or leave the town.
americans are so creative with the ways they reinvent slavery
Well, as long as he doesn't do the "you can only use my currency in my stores" thing, just living in a little town your employers created isn't a terrible idea, especially if it's that close and significantly cheaper than surrounding areas. 🤷🏻♀
@@LadyBeyondTheWall No, it's still a terrible idea, because now your housing is entirely dependent on your employer and if your employer threatens to fire you they are also threatening to render your homeless and force you to leave the town you live in. Not to mention the fact that "significantly cheaper than surrounding areas" is entirely up to the whims of your employer who can raise the prices of both rent and products in the town (either directly if they run the shops or indirectly if they rent the land to shop owners). The company will also be able to easily monitor your every move. Imagine your boss asks if you can come into work for an extra shift. You say no. He says "Why not? I can see you haven't left town. It won't take more than 5 minutes to drive on down." That's dystopian nightmare fuel.
This is the comment I was looking for. Crazy that anyone is dumb enough to think any of these places would be a good idea
@@LadyBeyondTheWallno.
My great grandparents fought in the street to defeat oil barons running feudal style cities with their own bespoke currency and we are just like "okay Facebook, why not!?"
😂 cause a lot of people are losing their minds slowly
those who don't learn from history...
Most people probably don’t like the idea, but most people aren’t in a position to stop this from happening
That's why it's important for the media companies to talk to us about what the Kardashians are doing, or suggest the pyramids were built by aliens. If people knew the history of the past century, they'd be a fighting a hell of a lot harder. But most people don't know any of that, so they're easy to scam. That is absolutely by design.
Curate your media, kids. It's easier than ever.
@@placeholderdoe That's what they want you to think! Get your lost guts and stand up!
Hey Danny! I usually don't comment but thought it was important to mention to you and others: just letting you know that foods like Sunday's dog food put dogs at risk for things like nutritional DCM (a heart disease that is preventable in breeds that aren't likely to get it) and pancreatic due to the fat levels. A lot of these dog foods don't even do the bare minimum of feeding trials. These companies can afford to hire nutritionists, do studies, feeding trials, and remain on the side of wsava complacent guidelines and they refuse to. We all want more options on what to feed our dogs, but grain-free foods or foods with a lot of legumes can cause as much of an issue if they're not formulated correctly. Grains and the like are good for dogs that aren't allergic to it, and these foods abuse the fact that we associate human grade with good.
If you want to feed your dogs fresh food, consult a nutritional vet. Not a regular vet, as most vets aren't super knowledgeable in proper nutrition to guide you on that. Sorry for the long message, I just want to avoid people losing their dogs to foods made by people who don't care
Hi! Do you know anything about The Honest Kitchen brand? I feed my dog a food from their brand that says it’s human grade-but I checked and it has no legumes in the ingredients, and it does include grains. The specific food is “Whole Food Clusters, Whole Grain, Chicken & Oat Recipe, Small Breed.”
hearing "he was going to dig a hole that could fit 200 people" sounds like someone preparing a mass grave
That’s exactly what I thought of too 😂
Like will it fit 200 people… and other things? Or just like 200 square feet
I mean considering things he’s said before I’m not so sure how against mass graves he’d be
sounds like a runescape thing too lmao
Sounds like a bunker not a grave
Yeah the jew in me was shaking
Danny, you have to build Greg Town as a competitor to Kurtis Town. I’ve heard they’re growing quicker by the day, we don’t want them becoming the fastest growing army on the internet.
i live in the cultural boundary in the inbetween, little-stinker town🌞🍷
@@ipeedonsunscatssame it’s a lovely place
@@ipeedonsunscatstruly, I love hopping between the towns
@@ipeedonsunscats i live in the direct centre of kurtistown, drewtown and dannytown
@@vulnerablefernwhere is that? Jarvistown?Burback town?? Maybe Chad Chadtown? You are going to have to be more specific
Seems like people who want to build towns might have too much money. Maybe they should have higher taxes, actually put money into existing towns. Just a thought.
Maybe we can gamify it to get it trending among billionaires - the person who paid the most taxes gets a park they can name, then a library, then a community centre, then a school, then a hospital, then a shopping centre and then a sport stadium - any billionnaire who paid the most taxes after 7 years can be declared the "winner" of that town ^_^
@@avalonfey I think this would work, especially if the winner gets a phallic looking monument at some point. Then they'll feel really seen.
6:45 They weren't temporary, they just tried to claim they were temporary because they didn't have the proper building permits for a permanent structure. The concrete foundations clearly indicated they were intended to be permanent, which is what the article was suggesting.
corporations trying to build their own cities for their employees shows a distinct lack of knowledge of their own country's history. people tried that already. it didnt work out. there were deaths.
underestimating hubris. those other people just didn't do it right, but it'll work THIS time around because THIS time they'll do it "right" lol
There still is cases of corporate towns in the US. They never went fully away and they still haven't learnt their lesson
Bold of you to assume corporations think long term and not just short term profit gains that will eventually screw them over in 5 years
I doubt it's lack of knowledge; more a lack of concern or any sort of moral compass, really.
History truly does repeat itself
9:00 fun fact I learned when I wanted to be an architect: there is a good reason most buildings are all square, it’s because when you have all those weird rounded corners it makes designing rooms REALLY hard, because they end up with all these wonky curved areas which don’t accommodate pretty much any pre existing furniture
Pre-existing furniture, pre-existing doors/windows, pre-existing appliances/fixtures, pre-existing drywall… the list is endless
as an architecture student, theres probably a couple other reasons as well.
1. while not impossible, making the building structurally sound is much more difficult when the shape is not consistent
2. it would be extremely expensive to fabricate the shape for each individual piece of the building. for example, concrete buildings tend to be the same shape throughout, as the form work is cheaper if you can reuse it
3. in the way shown in this video, the facade being that seamless would be... near impossible. it's obviously been done before, but having a building shaped like that would be a major wind/water issue, and a facade that smooth would lead to damages (both visually from water stain, and physically from wind loads).
4. as @bonnie1303 said, you would have to custom build EVERYTHING. and if the walls curve as shown, there would be no 90 degree wall to floor juncture, meaning that much of the floor plan space would be completely unusable
anyways sorry for the rant :P but yeah most of the buildings shown in that city would be... completely unfeasible for an entire city to look like LOL
That's one of the reasons why I don't use round walls in the sims
denver whistle building
did you make up the word preexisting? And what do you think is the difference between existing, preexisting and post existing? Haha 🌈@@bonnie1303
5:50 "envisaged" is a real world, Daniel
Ah, was looking for this answer. i thought they meant envisioned but apparently they do mean slightly different things: "The words envisage and envision share the same Latin root meaning to see. Both words are very similar in meaning but do have slight shades of difference. If you envision something happening, you can see it happening in your mind. I'm sure you can envision yourself graduating from high school! If you envisage something, you can imagine it, but not necessarily see it. You can envisage world peace, but it may be harder to envision it."
@@chocochipbananasplit 🤓
@@fatbgmanbg975anti-intellectualism strikes again
I like to think all these headlines are fully literal and all these rich people are building these cities by hand
"Kanye West tried to build a city in Wyoming" really hits different when you picture him laying every brick by hand
I would support it if that were the case ngl
"i'm from yecosystem, wyoming" -classic hole-person catchphrase
Yep. I grew up in the Domes
wyeoming
Hole-person sounds like a slur for bottoms 💀
@@manboy4720I originally replied “wyeezyoming” to this comment but I realize now that that was your joke and I was just doing a worse version of it. I apologize and I appreciate your joke. I love you
@@banditnosey i love you too.
I love that Kanye see's Tatooine in Star Wars, a lawless wasteland. See's Obi-Wan call it "The most retched hive of scum and villainy" and Kanye is just like "Damn, that's the kind of city I want to live in."
Why are you putting apostrophes after sees 🙄
Haha😂 true! I didn't think of that.
@@nk582 i sees it, i smells it.
I mean...Kanye kinda fits those words too so...
@@nk582 Why are you so upset that they did? You could still read what they meant. Maybe English isn't their native language.
As some have already commented, the "live where you work" cities were popular during the period of the gold and silver mining boom. It did not go well. It was a giant scam. Which were built by the companies that owned the gold and silver mines, of course. That's what a couple of these remind me of. They had their own currency and everything.
Like mobile games.
The hard, crunchy texture of most kibbles is actually very good for dog's teeth. Especially if they don't let you brush them or anything, kibble can help scrape away the tartar on their teeth. Also, I didn't hear any grains in the ingredient list, and can't find any listed on their website. Make sure your dogs have grain in their diet! Grain free foods have been linked to dilated cardiomyopathy, which is basically when the heart gets so big that it has trouble contracting, and it eventually leads to heart failure/death. I hope this helps!
Dogs don't naturally eat grains so I don't see why they'd need them
@@slartybartfastDogs are omnivores, not carnivores, and grains have fat, carbohydrates, fiber, and antioxidants, as well as the hard texture when used in dog food, while dogs don’t go and eat grains in nature, they would often eat it in the animals they would catch.
@@jadebeason7552 I'm pretty sure most of the animals they would have caught weren't eating that much grain anyway, more like grass and leaves. And I also saw that grains can cause allergies in dogs. Yes they are omnivores but they mostly eat meat and sometimes grass to aid in digestion, not grains. And definitely not in the quantity they have in some dog food
@@slartybartfast dogs are not obligate carnivores. Also 'grains' isn't a biological thing. it's a term we made up to describe a bunch of unrelated plants. your entire argument is basically 'yeah but i feel like grains are bad for dogs'
@@elfappo9330 All I was saying is that from what I could find, grains can be beneficial for some things but also could have downsides such as the allergy thing. And I didn't see anything saying they need grains. And dogs may not be obligate carnivores, but their teeth and digestive system is definitely more intended for digesting meat
FUN FACT: Disney's EPCOT center was originally gonna be one of these cities! They were common during the 19th-20th century, and walt Disney had planned on a city of the future. He of course died before he could begin actually making the city, and his execs and brother thought the city was a bad idea so just built a park instead. If you wanna know more than Defunctland has a great video about the topic!
And that’s why Disney world to this day has its own government.
they’re trying it again in cali i think
@@z.m.stewart1996They already have people living in the parks with those tacky housing community they built a few years back (watching a few of the house tours made me depressed on how awful it was designed)
120th century 🥰🥰
EPCOT actually stands for Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow :)
8:46 that's STRAIGHT UP A VIBRATOR
Literally😭😭
i haven’t gotten to that part in the video and this seems very concerning with just this comment
Thank you!! That was my first thought 😂
that’s literally one of the most common vibrator designs why did they do that
I DIDN’T SEE THAT THE FIRST TIME AROUND AND IMMEDIATELY LOST IT WHEN I READ THE COMMENT AND CLICKED THE TIMESTAMP
For the city planning aspect mentioned at 10:15, yes builders plan all of that out ahead of time, where the residential area is, commercial, industrial etc. They didn't do that when we were first settling/stealing the land, but any new development has a shitload of planning before it's built,
Real missed opportunity not saying they’d go from homeless to domeless
Danny really looking like minecraft steve
I eat the cotton candy from my walls
@@Beanzopshow does it taste like
@@cheesecake1255blood
Yum@@Beanzops
@@Beanzopsoh
Hi, someone who grew up in Menlo Park, California before it became what is now known as 'Zucktown' here. We lived in the low-income apartments next to Facebook HQ. Can confirm that the entire area is becoming a gentrified mess.
They started with building more office spaces and parking lots. Next came brand new apartments for what I can assume is the employees. And next, came us. They gave us a notice that they were tearing down our apartments to build brand new ones with more commodities. Sounds great, except they didn't let many of us go back when they finished. So here all of us are, scrambling to find a new place to rent. Except, rents in Menlo Park are $4000. We were one of the lucky ones who barely qualified for a mortgage for a new house. The same cannot be said for many other low-income families.
I don't know what they plan to do with the rest of the area, and I am actually a little saddened. I lived there almost my entire life and seeing it change so much bothers me. I can only hope the changes don't negatively affect the remaining residents as much as it affected the rest of us.
And actually, I didn't know about Zucktown despite having lived there until watching this video. Thanks for the great video, Danny. :)
Zucktown: *this is going to zuck*
Gentrification is disgusting.
You always need low income housing.
You never need high priced flats. Or any fancy housing really. No one needs overly fancy flats.
There is no need for that at all.
I'm sorry you guys got forced out of your homes.
God that’s horrifying. I’m so sorry
So glad it kinda worked out for you & yours! 👍🏠👍
@@CommanderViviaxmaybe not fancy, but we do need quality. We should not be expected to live in holes in the walls that are infested and rotting
As someone currently living and raising a family on a military base, it can be really bizarre and isolating when I dont leave base for a few days. It is definitely not always enjoyable to live and work in a fenced in area.
"Envisage" seems to be a more concrete, practical version of "envision" which is more metaphorical and abstract in nature - in case anyone was wondering.
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The Facebook city said it would be 59 acres. For context, Baltimore is 59 THOUSAND acres. My suburban town is about 9,500 acres. The University of Maryland College Park campus is 1,340 acres. But 59 acres is supposed to be a city?
Maybe they think they're going to just build mega skyscrapers without any issue. So many of these stupid city plans from the rich I've followed are just doing something like that and slapping on it will be "self sustaining" somehow
as someone about to graduate for urban planning my head hurts thinking of the poor urban planner and landscape architect who have to plan that
It would even be smaller than the vatican
Idk why but it makes me laugh that all the reference points are in Maryland
Half an acre is three houses long if you squish them right next to each other 😂
11:05 if you’re wondering, it’s a joke about how architects will come up with ridiculous designs and make the engineers deal with actually making it possible
@1:10 thank you! The middle east is not just one country!😭
funny thing is that those reflective curve buildings will cause extremely concentrated areas of heat/radiation to the point that it’ll be a health hazard. it happened before with a building like this and they had to cover it bc it was melting cars and shit
That's true! I believe this is London's "The Shard." Supposedly, a reporter was on location discussing it's car-melting capability when he had to cut things short because his hair caught on fire.
Well now I'm wondering if somebody made a town full of buildings that curve in a way that reflects the heat away from the streets and like back upwards instead, would that make the town colder?
@@shadowshade904 yes actually. So there have actually been projects trying to increase roof and road reflectivity. However the mirror/reflective metal structure in not really one that’s been explored much, probably because it isn’t very economical. But yes convex structures would spread out rather than concentrate solar rays.
@@benjaminrobinson3842 I had to look it up but it’s actually the ‘Walkie-Talkie’ building in London. From the looks of it the shards sides aren’t curved. it’s concave curved reflective surfaces that would cause this issue. I didn’t know that about the reporter, that’s quite funny.
@@benjaminrobinson3842the building isn’t the shard, its the walkie talkie building!
Danny, you are in this club. BUILD US A GREG CITY!!! #gregcity
YES i would live there
#gregcity
@@shark_guy_waawe're Greg's. It's our home.
@@Harper_is_tired#gregcity
#gregcity‼️‼️
not them calling akon a ringtone superstar 😂 11:57
None of these futuristic cities are for us common people, like theyre all for the rich folk. Also these projects of making these futuristic cities serve like no practical purpose on why theyre there in the first place like Telosa, The Line, Egypts New New city, etc.
Quick note as a veterinarian- if you do choose to move your dog onto fresh food, even if if it's dried, you HAVE to be feeding them normal dog food along side it. I beg you to remember an animal is not a human and they can't get everything they need to live healthily from a "fresh food" diet. Dog and cat food is manufactured specifically to tick the boxes of health in your pet. Those "synthetic nutrients" ARE nutarians made to help you pet stay healthy. Fresh food, even dried, is great! It is NOT a replacement.
Not to be rude at all but like, they would be eating only fresh food in the wild, right??
Again, not being sarcastic, genuinely asking: what would they be getting from kibble that they can't get from a well balanced fresh food diet and supplements?
@@Crabby-Abbythey wouldn’t be getting anything “in the wild” because dogs are domesticated animals. they couldn’t live without humans, any dogs that live “in the wild” likely have contact with humans and eat food scraps from them. not to mention a wild dog would be incredibly unhealthy.
@@graces1stpsata I mean, there are literally wild dogs though? Obviously not like a Chihuahua lol but there are plenty of relatives to the dog that live in the wild just fine. And they aren't unhealthy when their ecosystem isn't destroyed by humans. And PLENTY of cats live in the wild.
@@Crabby-Abbyjust adding to the convo. Dogs and Wolves have common ancestors, but are different animals. You may be under the impression that a “natural diet” for dogs is what wolves would eat. Which is not really the case. Dogs are canines that evolved alongside humans to adapt to how humans live with them. They are not living in the forest hunting and such. They live inside and on the outskirts of human settlements. Chihuahuas are a good example of this because they have been kept along humans since the 9th century, according to light googling. If you are interested in the topic “What happened to pre-contact dogs” by Trey the explainer is a great paleontology and archeology video explaining stuff like this but specifically about pre-European contact American dogs.
@@sonya6191 thanks for the info! I appreciate it!
Urban planner here! You do in fact plan exactly what goes where before building a brand new city to ensure all the necessary infrastructure is in place, not a bunch of film studios though. Which is why it's wild to me that Kanye was supposedly hiring everybody but urban planners...probably the reason why he's failing 💀
I was thinking about the fact that there is a parklot, but no water treatment plants, no trash collection and disposal plans, no hospital or healthcare facilities, and no firefighting facilities.
Like, I'm glad the cars are safe in a city that totally could have been walkable with public transportation.
@@AdaireKrickets
When you start to play city sims and stuff you really appreciate how much planning goes into it, it's so easy to fuck up it's a miracle some of them run as smoothly as they do
Of course an out of touch billonare wouldn't know that...
He played sim city once, it's fine.
2040: Rich people keep trying to build Interplanetary cities and bases
Hershey, PA was founded as a corporate town, started by Hershey's of course. There were some real positives at the time, modern amenities in the houses plus free school for the kids of employees as well as free vocational schooling to orphaned and underprivileged people to learn to work in the factory. I'm sure there was also shady stuff going on (I'm in no means an expert on this) but let's be real, there's no way I trust Zuck and Kanye to even consider schooling as a concept for their towns, let alone have them be free.
Town planning is definitely a thing. You can tell when a city was planned versus when it just started and expanded naturally.
wagon wheel vs. grid for ex.
City planning is very good for a city😁
Boston wasn't planned in the slightest, that's why it's such hell to drive around 😭
Brasília, capital of brasil, is a planned city but it worked cause the one planning was the former president
@@goblin_rightsMost cities are hell to drive around since cars sort of suck in the context of cities
On a more serious note, we do have cities like this in Indonesia. Almost totally governed by the billionaire-owned developers.
what we do?
What are they like?
They have their own malls, complex housing, supermarket, park, clubs, resorts, hotels, etc
These sort of places are pretty common around the world, especially in areas where there isn’t a lot of alternative housing. I remember watching a video about a town in Japan owned by Toyota for its employees that has like a whole underground network for robots. I think the weird thing about the ones in the videos is that the actual owner of the company is so involved and that’s usually why it fails. They’re not trying to make actual good housing for their employees, they’re wanting to become the ruler of a town completely designed by them.
Literally meikarta
13:38 he tried so hard not to say "reachsome"
Well, this is honestly terrifying. I love how they keep labelling it as a "utopia" when we all know it's a dystopia for everyone but the rich
15:50 this is literally just medieval fuedalism
what's that
actually it's more of a company town which to be fair is a proud american tradition
@@choosehappy9224bro did NOT go to middle school
@flyingskier1913
What is late capitalism if not neo feudalism?
@choosehappy9224 feudalism is basically: live on my land give me something in return
I worked for a dome construction company for about 3 years. We spent most of out time remodeling living rooms and backyards with enlarged, semicircle sitting areas. Built exactly 0 full domes.
HAHA this made me laugh out loud for some reason I guess no one wants domes
>hires a dome-building company
>They don't build me a dome
Hey! I just wanted to point out the thing Danny said about the “planning out” cities before building them. It’s actually called urbanism. It was pretty popular in Ancient Rome and Greece, where they would plan out exactly where each buildings are going to be, instead of building houses one by one.
Thank you for allowing me to yap about stuff from my freshman art history class.
Hope it made sense.
11:10 yes, it is every architect's dream. ever since i decided i wanted to be an architect and started studying it, i have been having dreams about these exact buildings.
WE GOTTA MAKE KURTISTOWN A REAL PLACE NEXT FELLAS 🙏🔥🗣️‼️
There is a real town called Kurtistown in Hawaii, we just have to buy it
@@AnnicamdwI GOT THE CASH
Fr but we also need #gregcity
Are gal pals allowed?
Yes!!
“I thought cities were built as things are needed” That’s how the POORS do it, Danny
11:24 You went to Gatech. You should KNOW that this is every architects dream and every engineers nightmare
16:32 THE GATE???
wow I sure do love that company towns are coming back. They worked so well the first time
0:18 "billionaires don't control the government yet" that's a good one! a banger within the first the first thirty seconds
i mean in the us they certainly influence it but there's a reason a bunch of them are leaving washington and other states because they are against the high taxes in the area.
@@herb_rolls3929 There's another reason too, they lobby for the migrants they run from.
I was thinking the same thing
i was like “yeah about that…”
I love the first the first!
0:07 genuinely thought jeff bezos was Trixie Mattel for a second💀😭😭
Of course, build your own city. Because that went so well for Walt Disney and Henry Ford
haha I went to that sponsor's site. The biggest red flag: they do not have prices everywhere. They want you really emotionally invested before you see any costs!
My browser isn't even letting me acces their website cuz it "might be harmful for your device" lol
Have you seen how much he was blinking around 8:10 ? Think he might be held hostage.
also. the website shows 0 one star reviews on its summary but if you sort it, there are a bunch lol
@@artpai7665 I'm getting an error: "redirected you too many times."
@@daniellet4218just checked, you’re right! People claiming its a scam, high prices and terrible customer services as well as it apparently causing stomach problems. ALL of the recent reviews are 1 star, literally all of them
The Walt Disney fascination with space travel to acquisition of farmland to futuristic city planning pipeline strikes again
Henry Ford trying building a city in Brazil back in the 20s. Sort of a wild story, and the city was akin to a ghost town in the early 2000s. The name's Fordlandia (Fordland), very interesting to see how this remains a trend among large companies to this day, and it seems like it still doesn't work out lol
13:52 59 acres is very small in reality, which is not nearly enough room for a city.
Well to be fair they aren't the first musical artist to build a city, Starship built a city on Rock and Roll
my bad, for some reason I was under the impression it was built on tootsie rolls
Oh man, I bet all those miners at the Boring Company are going to love the idea of living in a company-controlled town. Absolutely no historical precedent to draw upon to evaluate that decision.
And you get paid in company-issued currency that's only valid in company-owned stores. Capitalism is perfect. The free market is God 🌈
My grandparents lived on Phillips 66 property.. they had a post office and schools... My grandpa was a chemist for Phillips so he lived and worked there....UNTIL... The plant blew up and altough he continued to work there, they had to literally pick up their house and move it to a different town!
I actually have some experience with communities built by corporations. There was one close to where I grew up, with the company having a lot of factories in different industries over a large compound, and they also built a lot of houses, a community pool and sports areas, even two schools (one of which I went to). It was actually once of the greenest and most peaceful neighbourhoods around, as they had people caring for the place, so the air always smelled really fresh. The factories were some distance away from the actual living areas. The school and pool and stuff was originally intended for the employees' families, but because the quality of the facilities were good they also attracted a lot of people who weren't related to the city. From what I heard it was quite safe for kids to play and run around, and also your house would depend on what position the employee worked in. I never really thought about it being kinda dystopian until now lol, it was so normal for me growing up.
I am almost 100% certain that building a “futuristic city” is just a cover for sweatshops to produce cheap merch
Probably mostly that and some human trafficking thrown in to build that workforce. And probably some drug trafficking just because where you find one you often find the other. That 200person hole skeeved me the hell out.
Some of these sounded an awful lot like the good old company towns of the 1800-1900s. And by good old I mean they literally turned out horribly and we shouldn't repeat history like that :/
12:38 I guess you could say it was "A CON"
“Phallic high rise” is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard this man say 💀
about how cities are built: there are different types of cities, some are organic like you said but when building a settlement like the romans did they actually had all of the areas in the city planned out, like the theatre, the market, etc.
Tech billionaires re-inventing the company town. The last time we had these, there was literal warfare, but it's probably fine this time. It'll work great, no machine guns required.
See also Sorry To Bother You.
Love that film
At least class warfare will be more fun this time
where can I find that film?
Snailbrook sounds like a town from a mid 2000s disney channel movie
its like seabrook from zombies😭
Ugh! I just wanna get out of Snailbrook! I wanna live in Hollywood!
Jenty, no! You need to stay in our middle school band!
snailbrook sounds like the response you'd get from a Town Name Generator online
It sounds like a cartoonishly dull and depressing town, where everything is grey, and everyone is sluggish and lethargic. Like the kind of place the energetic character used to live in their backstory.
How did he do a whole Sunday's dog food brand deal without mentioning that his dog's name is literally Sundae
As an architecture student, I must say that the right thing to do when studying urbanism is to plan everything in the city, where things are heavily influence how the city functions. So yes, Akon was kind of right in planning, but I do think these buildings in this format will be every engineer's nightmare.
The fact that Kanye West tried to make a 200 person mass-grave called the ‘Yecosystem’ is incredible. (I say mass-grave because a 200 person mass-grave-esque hole isn’t a city, it’s something out of the bubonic plague, or if you want to call it that: an ultra-utilitarian underground zone.)
Danny not knowing “envisaged” is a word is filling me with energy I can’t describe
I was looking for this comment 😂
What’s it mean tho?
@@gortofficial101 to contemplate or conceive of as a possibility or a desirable future event.
@@dylanainge2324 oh thx lol
I was scrolling and scrolling looking for someone to point out it was a real world 😭 this is the only comment I've found 💀
@9:22 Danny you also forgot to mention in the middle of NOWHERE😂
I mean, Walt Disney wanted to make Epcot a little civilization where he was basically a dictator, and then he died so they turned it into a tourist attraction
13:08 possibly one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever heard. Makes me think of I have no mouth and I must scream
I have no mouth and I must scream isn’t even that bad, I mean unless your not one of the unlucky people AM picked, then your just dead 🤷
@@Kaeden-kz2ds babe what-
I actually lived in a tiny mining town my dad worked at for a few years, so corporations owning/running the places their employees live at probably happens more often than we'd think.
Epcot was originally supposed to be a socially engineered town.
Also, remember when you were a kid and you would design your mansion on the back of the paper placemats? This is that.
Fun fact, in some small countries in west Africa, rich architects actually are planning and building really big complexes. Especially in Gambia and Senegal. I think it’s more of an apartment/housing complex with stores and stuff rather than an autonomous city but still. It’s a thing!
Surprisingly, dome shaped houses are not only not new, they're super environmentally friendly and safe when constructed correctly. Check out the super adobe eco domes from the CalEarth institute in Hesperia, CA, one of them apparently survived a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, which is kinda legit tbh.
that's amazing
But they won't be the good sort.
Geodesic domes are also supposed to be really good in tornado-prone areas because the way they divert the high winds actually produces more of a downward pressure on the building than anything else. Or at least, that’s what I think I remember from learning about them like 15 years ago.
@@9Syren9I wanna know more about this do you have more to say or what should I look up?
IDK some architecture people in the comments are saying they're incredibly impractical and expensive to make. No pre-existing doors, windows, furniture etc fit them and everything has to be custom made...don't really see how that's environmentally friendly. The dome also traps heat inside to the point of a health hazard someone said?
Towns run by companies sounds perfectly fine and I'm sure a quick search for "company towns" will not in anyway make me want to set things on fire with my mind.
14:33 no modern styles just suck
Danny saying billionaires don't already have control over the government is hilarious
12:50 you could say it was A-con
I want you to know that this made me chuckle
For most cities in the world, yes. They were little groups of houses around a stream that continued on growing.
A lot of American cities were fully planned out from the get go.
Uninhabited land (for whatever reason) is used to blueprint a city atop
0:09 They’re now building a film set in Tonopah, Arizona because of him buying it…Its also become incredibly populated within 5 years, you used to have no neighbors for MILES. Now people are on top of each other…It’s awful. It was announced to us back in like 2015 that we were gonna be turned into a smart city and we had to accept that or leave.
If Danny builds Greg City it would be paradise on Earth
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I eat the cotton candy from my walls
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Planning out all the building is actually pretty common for new towns and cities nowadays. There are a lot of planned cities where they already have everything planned and then just build it in stages. An advantage of planning everything from the start is that the urban planning can be really efficient which makes it a lot nicer for the people living there. You can make sure everything is in walking distance and that all the roads will be able to handle the necessary traffic.
This became a more popular idea after the second World War, when the population boom created a demand for more housing stock. Unfortunately for planning enthusiasts, it was impossible to control *everything* so the result would be a tidy central planned area surrounded by the typical ad hoc development of a conventionally-built city.
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
I live near Viera Florida which is one of the top planned cities in America and it still sucks because the planners didn't think of " user experience" and the influx of people who use the business and places but don't live in Viera and instead come from surrounding cities. Also, it's expensive so all the minimum wage workers ( me lol) have to be "imported"
I have a feeling that Grimes' main contribution was naming the town Snailbrook
Reminds me how the past CEO of Chick-Fil-A made a town called Trilith, where film makers live and work at Trilith studios. Surprisingly a bunch of Marvel movies has been filmed there as well
On a serious note, corporations already do this with migrant workers. It's a very big problem in Canada, you have no idea just how unethical it is for your employer to also be your landlord. Trust me, corporations housing their workers should be illegal. It puts workers in positions where they can easily be, at the very least taken advantage of, and at the very worst, horribly abused.
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9:59 there are actually some towns that are planned out! My hometown of Columbia, MD is a planned community that was developed by James Rouse, Edward Norton’s grandfather.
In Italy (Veneto, tbp) we have a city (pretty big too) where all of the employees of one dude decided to build houses to be closer to the main building of the factory. Now the dude is dead, but people still thinks of him like their major or smth. They still refer to it as "Alte Ceccato" (Ceccato being the name of the guy). And it's not even the first one! There's one called "Rosignano Solvay" and it's the same thing as the other one. People worked for Solvay and they started to live near it creating a city. There's also a beach with white foam made from the chemicals of the factory and people bathe in it (wild, I know). So yeah, Mr. Zucky could be onto something there 😅
Loving how danny is struggling with the clearly AI-written article lol
he's so innocent to the modern half-dead internet
Man I didn't even clock that
Legit, how could you tell??
“X, formally known as Twitter” was really something 😅
@@oo4758 "he was deep into his bag of brilliance" tipped me off a little bit
15:50 the most genuine "are the houses in the room with us"
Kanye's "city" in Wyoming . . . Bro was trying to build a fallout vault.
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10:14 im an urban planning student and planned cities are definitely a thing! A lot of cities started out as planned cities, especially capitals. The capital of Brazil is a good example.