Has anyone else had this idea? A company town is a town that has all its buildings and land controlled by a company. The residents of the town then operate their own businesses as subsidiaries of the company. The company can "tax" the subsidiaries by drawing off a portion of their profits. This enables a community to be created with complete control over who can live there and what kind of businesses can be run.
In short you could create a Christian company whose charter states that the company will create and maintain a community with the aim of maintaining traditional Christian values. Members of the community who are trusted and respected are given shares in the company and the board of directors is elected from among them to act as the towns council.
Is this feasible? It would allow Christians to create communities that are completely free from government influence since the land and property is privately owned there is no obligation to allow non-Christians or people who live immoral lifestyles into the community. In all other ways it can function as a traditional Christian village, with the long term goal of siphoning off as much money and wealth from the host nation as possible to maintain a high quality of life for the inhabitants.
Idk where you live but in America this would be illegal. It's all beautiful and idyllic until a jew or muslim or negro wants to move in and you legally have to allow them because you can't discriminate based on religion or race. In the 60s somehow we got freedom mixed up with anti-discrimination.
But why does it have to be a company town? Just so there is an income that doesn't rely on outside companies?
Colton Sullivan
Take your meds
Landon Brooks
I don't know if this is true or not. Don't you have freedom of association? The Knights of Columbus are an organization that only accepts practicing Catholics. Religious organizations in the US certainly are allowed to discriminate, there are some churches that even refuse to perform mixed marriages and it's perfectly legal.
Discrimination laws only apply to entities that operate open to the public. If you want to create a club that only accepts members based on certain criteria that's legal because it's not a public entity, it's private, hence why the land and village needs to be owned by a corporation, it's private property. The owner of the property is allowed to use whatever criteria they want in deciding which people to allow on their premises.
I think the key issue would be that the company is not open to the public, it's private. There's no issue with discriminating against people who want to enter into your house because your house is not a place of public accommodation. The land and buildings of the village would be the same, except owned by the company whose interests are private, not public.
No that has been effectively destroyed. Religious groups for now retain some level of being able to exclude others, but im sure there is a lawsuit somewhere trying to remove that. You dont have the ability to choose who you want to hire in your own company once you pass a threshold in the US. I believe its still at 50 employees, but once you pass that you are forced from the federal level to fill certain quotas. This is even before you get into the requirements forced on you if you want to do business with any level of government.
While its possible in theory to have a religious focused industrial isolationist society, in practice it would be almost impossible. Its basically the amish, but with a factory. The amish are only allowed because they have a large community and support network that allows them to form new communities. Starting from scratch would need a lot of seed money and people in command positions who have conviction to be able to keep out and kick out any who would poison the community. There is an entire grievance industry whose whole purpose is to weasel themselves into places to extort money and fracture communities.
Oliver Bell
Its not so much that freedom of association is a bad thing, its just freemasons think that because we have the freedom to associate means we don't have the freedom to disassociate as well.
Brandon Sanchez
Sounds like a nice concept, but even if you managed to weasel around every one of the United States' anti-discrimination laws, (((journalists))) would inevitably report on it day and night, and people would harass your company town non-stop until it gets shut down, just like every Christian store that doesn't allow themselves to be bullied into submission by homosexuals. You'd be better off moving to Poland or some other small Christian country that hasn't been (((culturally enriched))).
Josiah Lopez
Whilst I don't expect such a thing to happen these days, the concept has ocurred approximately in the past, at least here in England. For instance, I'm studying at B'ham right now, and ~2 miles away is Bournville, where the old Cadbury's factory exists. Years ago, they operated on a system remarkably similar to what you've suggested OP, although I believe the gave up ownership of much of the land at some point in the last century. Also, I'm fairly certain they were quakers.
Towns and cities under Christendom owned by lords operated under the same principle however?
The Muslims also already have their own today and its called Dubai.
Lincoln Lewis
Like in the olden days there could be guards on-site to enforce order and prevent this harassment from happening or minimize it?
Christian Jackson
The Headquarters of where the Landlord could reside once it has enough funds could perhaps also model itself off Fort Knox which is essentially acts as a 'modern day Castle' design or close?
Brody Perez
Register a private police or security guard organization also dedicated to maintaining order of the company town/city's land and its laws/terms and conditions, then you are all set to go.
Michael Davis
So it's basically just a complicated form of libertarianism, but one that doesn't work because of anti-discrimination laws in the US? For any democratic system, republic, or similar system ruled "by the people" it is required that the people vote for their own freedom or seize it from the tyrants in other means (could be nonviolent, such as refusing to pay taxes and undercutting the fed). In a monarchy, dictatorship, or other authoritarian state the one in charge must make the decree (which is unlikely). In short, read Hoppe.
No. Do you just see "company" and immediately think libertarianism. The company is simply an entity that can hold all the property and assets of the community and enables a structure that can act as a pseudo-government by collecting a portion of profits as tax (then using them to help build more community infrastructure) and establishing a charter that details the aims of the organization and how it should be run.
The economic system in the community would likely be something close to distributism whereby the company gives individuals the materials they need to provide a service of value to the community.
Anti-discrimination laws don't apply. An atheist can't force their way into an Amish community because if they're not allowed in it's "discrimination". Religious organizations are exempt from discrimination laws.
Isaiah Evans
Lmao as I read OP's post I couldn't help but think of Hoppe.
Lincoln Adams
A business isn't a religious organization though, so if the company is holding all the land they can't discriminate against gays or whatever other group wants to live there without facing a lawsuit. You'd have to form a community based solely on religion, and have the land owned by individual members who all agree to not sell their land to undesirables.
Because it's literally a covenant community, but with a business owning the land instead of a landlord.
Landon Reed
Some are. Businesses that explicitly identify as primarily religious in nature are exempt from discrimination laws that apply to businesses that serve the general public.
The nature of the business changes whether it can discriminate or not. A business that openly caters to people of a specific demographic isn't being discriminatory, however the business must explicitly identify as a religious organization.
Jordan Hill
Neat, I did not know that. Thanks for teaching me something new!
Ryder Miller
I think it could be done in Australia if they manage to pass the religious freedom bill in regards to businesses and religions.
Robert Garcia
We have to try and push for a religious freedom bill in the U.S too in regards to this.
Dominic Gutierrez
I hope stuff like this can happen; I’d probably move there when I get on my own feet. It seems like a good idea, although we probably can’t give everyone to live exactly the way we want them to
Isaiah Clark
This is literally how most of Europe formed, people built cities around Cistercian monestaries and then the Cistercians moved farther out into nowhere
Sebastian Price
Sounds great until you realize that the town would be under the control of your local bishop, who has like a 50-50 chance of being a homosexual pedophile or someone who has no problem with homosexual pedophilia and will allow homosexual pedophiles to work for him.
Hunter Morgan
Could be resolved by establishing another Inquisition with authority to collect evidence, even through means they don't know if necessary.
Nolan Martinez
Have the inquisition use social engineering to lure out the homosexual pedophiles or a way to be contacted anonymously, so those falling victim can contact them in secret in which they could then take down the evidence quickly before acting.
Gabriel Ramirez
Well dammit I wish I could live in one, it would be more than effective for escaping the temptations of this society. Some of which I'm addicted to and have problems quitting. In a Catholic Company Town it would be much easier to get away from some of those habits.
