The Wisconsin Foxconn factory story is still just so fucking amazing
@evie
i briefly once worked for a startup creating software for businesses to track this sort of thing.
Apparently it's a lot easier for large companies to pressure towns into agreeing to hand over land and let them demolish everything with the promise of jobs, and THEN figure out what to do. they get the tax break first and then justify it.
The software in question was just like "how much do we have left until we've met the bare minimum of our promises to not be in legal trouble"
@heatherhorns god just absolutely disgusting
The Verge has an amazing write up about the timeline. The EIC of The Verge is from Racine so it definitely seems like a personal project for the verge
https://www.theverge.com/21507966/csk-8th-wonder-of-the-world
@evie holy shit i'd never heard this before.
"The Mount Pleasant village president, Dave DeGroot, did not respond to a request for comment, but in September told the Racine Journal Times he’s “thrilled” with the progress and called for patience on a project that will now take “decades” to complete."
fucking hell