Voters go to opinion polls to report whether Elon Musk should get a company in Texas

the “Town Company“To a large extent it is an artifact of a past era – there are no unhappy time in American history when the baron controls the wealthy lands of society and the rights of workers, at least as we know it today, it has not yet exist. Today, it will be severely pressure to find many of these archaeological companies active in the United States, but that did not prevent Elon Musk from trying to restore them in elegance.

Wall Street Journal New story In trying to integrate its city into an area of ​​the coast of the Gulf of Texas, where the company StarbaseAnd that you use to test and launch missiles. Currently, more than 3,400 SPACEX employees and contractors are active around the base, and the company has increasingly sought to build infrastructure and amenities to provide these growing workforce.

Musk Company The deposited paper works To convert Starbase to a company in December. In February, the Texas Province agreed where Starbase is located on local elections to allow its residents to decide whether the city could be integrated or not. These elections are scheduled to be held on Saturday. According to the magazine, the city was “spreading on multiple properties near a highway for the state and includes approximately 247 pieces with housing on it.”

The general manager of Starbase Kathryn Lueders said that converting Starbase into a real city will allow the company to provide “civil jobs” effectively. These jobs will include “Roads Management, Facilities, Education and Medical Care to Residents.” The company claims that it annually spends about $ 1.5 billion on the operations surrounding Starbase.

Several potential government officials – all SPACEX employees – also. The Journal wrote that Bobby Bidin, the current Vice President of SPACEX for testing and launching in Texas, will be the mayor of the city. Meanwhile, two Spacex employees, Jordan Buss and Jenna Petrzelka, will be two commissioners.

Texas residents do not seem to be especially excited by the planned community. Politico Talk recently One of the organizers said that the gathered activists living near Starbase, all of them collected the effort: “He is the richest man on this planet that uses us as a test land.” “Elon Musk is on his way to the colonization of Mars. First, he tries to colonize this society.”

Musk always builds something, and it appears recently interested in its urban projects. In 2023, Wall Street Journal I mentioned This musk was planning a “utopian” town outside Austin, Texas, which had a very bad name: “Snailbroook”. Since then, the city has been under construction, but, as of September, Just consisting of A small number of buildings, including 15 units, gym, playgrounds, and swimming pool. He has pushed other technological industrialists who have relationships with Musk again and again what they call “”Freedom cities-The millionaire-backed free pockets that companies will govern instead of traditional governments.

In short: It seems that nostalgia for capitalism, along the lines of the nineteenth century, is strong in the gilded new American category, and they are doing their best to return us to the “old days” when workers live where they worked and worked where they lived and answered (mostly) to the president.