Billionaire Marc Lore outlines how he will build the inclusive, Utopian desert city Telosa

[Jilly_in_VA]

Marc Lore grew up wanting to be a farmer – reveling at the idea of "something growing from nothing" – all while watching his father unafraid to take chances with ambitious business ventures.

The 50-year-old billionaire developed his appetite for taking risks from his father, Peter, and it's that foundation in childhood that's propelling him to now focus on a spellbindingly ambitious endeavor that many experts and pundits are deeming near impossible.

Lore, the former president of Walmart e-commerce and co-founder of Jet.com and Diapers.com, is attempting to spearhead the conceptual and financial building blocks for Telosa, a Utopian city in the middle of the desert announced last month.

Telosa's location is being targeted in the Appalachia or American West desert with plans to shepherd in a reformed version of capitalism with a focus on societal inclusion over division. Lore envisions Telosa having equal access health care, excellent schooling and safe environments for families, regardless of income. Even further, he aims for Telosa to be a diverse place housing various races, genders, sexual orientations, religions and political affiliations.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/10/17/how-billionaire-marc-lore-plans-create-utopian-desert-city-telosa/5991523001/
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NOT doing it in the desert would be a good start, because water. I don't suppose he thought of that.....

[abqtommy]

1. Billionaire Marc better be careful or members of his family and his business

associates just may go to court to have him declared incompetent. People really don't
like to see their potential inheritance or their present financial rewards fritttered away
in pursuit of a utopian dream.

I don't have a lot of money myself so that isn't a problem for me. But I see where large
amounts of money can do a lot of good around the world for many people who are
suffering now due to drought, famine, disease and violence.

[zorbasd]

2. Why?

Why build from nothing when you have it right in front of you....
There are enormous -once thriving and now dying small towns across the country.
Why not choose towns at the four corners of the country, and build upon that?

[hunter]

3. Humans have already trashed too much land and he wants to trash more.

There's plenty of decaying urban places in the U.S.A. that could be rebuilt, both politically and physically, without the gentrification today's dirty capitalism demands.

That requires feet-on-the-ground-hands-on activism.

Any damned fool billionaire can build a pleasure park themed insanely regulated HOA community on the Arizona Desert, Appalachians, or Florida wetlands and too many have.

[Wingus Dingus]

4. Is this a commune? Or a Shaker type thing?

This has been tried before.