Peter RileySep 16, 2025

Plutocrats private enclaves defended by high walls, radar detection systems, and a well-funded, heavily armed police force.

USA Company Towns https://jacobin.com/2025/09/starbase-musk-spacex-bezos-company-towns

Starbase Texas
https://www.yahoo.com/news/starbase-elon-musk-company-town-140000784.html

Billionaire Bunkers
https://www.businessinsider.com/billionaire-bunker-miami-bezos-tom-brady-ivanka-trump-security-2024-9

“gated” Capos.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/00420980231211814

#Capitalism #Honduras #Miami #Privatization #Prospera #Singapore #Starbase

You Aren’t Allowed in These Billionaire Towns

Welcome to the fully privatized city, where the ultrarich can do as they please — no whining from the rabble permitted.

Show threada1Nov 30
@peterjriley2024 Just imagine the HOA in these places. 😱
Show threadPeter Riley

@ar1
HOA Landed “gentry” also Lord it about on water seeking tax minimisation harbours?

"Oxfam identified 23 #superyachts owned by 18 #billionaires and estimates the average annual #carbonfootprint of each of these yachts to be 5,672 tons, which is more than three times the emissions of the billionaires' private jets," the study's executive summary reads. "This is equivalent to 860 years of emissions for the average person.”

https://www.oxfamamerica.org/explore/research-publications/carbon-inequality-kills/

#Capitalism #RichPeoplesYachtMoney

Dec 2 at 7:05amWeb