I Sold My Soul to the Company Cryptocurrency

I just see no problem here. Nope, no problem at all.

Planned legislation to establish new business areas in Nevada would allow technology companies to effectively form separate local governments.

Democratic Gov. Steve Sisolak announced a plan to launch so-called Innovation Zones in Nevada to jumpstart the state’s economy by attracting technology firms, Las Vegas Review-Journal reported Wednesday.

The zones would permit companies with large areas of land to form governments carrying the same authority as counties, including the ability to impose taxes, form school districts and courts and provide government services.

The measure to further economic development with the “alternative form of local government” has not yet been introduced in the Legislature.

Sisolak pitched the concept in his State of the State address delivered Jan. 19. The plan would bring in new businesses at the forefront of “groundbreaking technologies” without the use of tax abatements or other publicly funded incentive packages that previously helped Nevada attract companies like Tesla Inc.

Sisolak named Blockchains, LLC as a company that had committed to developing a “smart city” in an area east of Reno after the legislation has passed.

There really is nothing new about our techbro betters in the New Gilded Age. It’s the same old attempt to gain power over all parts of the life of everyone else, with compliant politicians wowed by the money and completely uninterested in thinking through the consequences of these actions.

The one difference of course is that the company scrip of the 2020s is totally going to be company-issued cryptocurrencies.