After years of stealth purchases and the threat of a $510 million lawsuit against locals, California Forever’s CEO says he now calls Solano County ‘home.’
After years of stealth purchases and the threat of a $510 million lawsuit against locals, California Forever’s CEO says he now calls Solano County ‘home.’
Cities normally spring up around some resource. What’s the resource here, billionaires? Not much of a resource, really. “WOW, I CAN MOVE TO THE BAY AREA AND MAKE $15/HR CLEANING A CRYPTO BRO’S HOUSE” is kind of a hard sell.
well there’s a dudes only state prison (~5,000 inmates), a dudes only medium security medical prison (2,500 inmates), an air force base, and it is adjacent to the middle stretch of a deep water shipping channel connecting sacramento and the SF bay/pacific.
that is a weird little cluster of infrastructure to have nearby in the event of some sort of collapse into manorialism.
but let’s say the apocalyptic triggering event doesn’t happen…
fun USA fact: even though they typically can’t vote on anything at any level, prison inmates count towards state and federal voting district population requirements. there are some geographic areas of the US that are so fucked up and driving away their residents that political machines are under threat of having their district absorbed into a neighboring district. enter the rural prison: it’s like a small city of silent constituents who count towards the representative power of your geographic location but can never challenge you with the added bonus of functioning as a jobs program / professional development resource for churning out sadists (aka guards).
one imagines the Master Plan for this Old City State involves a very old solution to the problem of limited labor for plantation-style/large-estate/hacienda/latifundio agricultural systems.