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.