Not to pick nits, but it should have happened back when Walt died and the powers that be at the house of the mouse decided to turn the land into EPCOT instead of the actual company city that Walt had envisioned. The state was too busy counting the money rolling in and gargling Disney corporate's balls to actually look at the groomer shit that was being pulled even back in the day.
Better late than never. It's interesting how the original vision of EPCOT actually is very similar to the vision of the great reset. It was essentially "you'll own nothing and be happy."
Walt, all in all, was a consummate Futurist (and idealist), and I feel like his take on it was more of a utopian thing - people working for the company that owned the community, and the company providing for the people, in a non-antagonistic, mutually beneficial way. Sort of a corporate arcology but without the dystopian aspects to it. Now, we all know that would never work in the long run, because people inevitably find some way to fuck it up, but I can see what he was aiming at.
Flash forward, and we have the rainbow-haired brigade wanting us all to live in pods, own nothing, and subsist on insects and mealworms. Something definitely went wrong between Point A and Point B.
Not to pick nits, but it should have happened back when Walt died and the powers that be at the house of the mouse decided to turn the land into EPCOT instead of the actual company city that Walt had envisioned. The state was too busy counting the money rolling in and gargling Disney corporate's balls to actually look at the groomer shit that was being pulled even back in the day.
Better late than never. It's interesting how the original vision of EPCOT actually is very similar to the vision of the great reset. It was essentially "you'll own nothing and be happy."
That's basically your traditional company town in a nutshell. Ever have to deal with an actual company store? They're designed to keep you in debt.
Walt, all in all, was a consummate Futurist (and idealist), and I feel like his take on it was more of a utopian thing - people working for the company that owned the community, and the company providing for the people, in a non-antagonistic, mutually beneficial way. Sort of a corporate arcology but without the dystopian aspects to it. Now, we all know that would never work in the long run, because people inevitably find some way to fuck it up, but I can see what he was aiming at.
Flash forward, and we have the rainbow-haired brigade wanting us all to live in pods, own nothing, and subsist on insects and mealworms. Something definitely went wrong between Point A and Point B.