As a former homeless person, I can confirm that all homeless people are, in fact, there because they don't like the shape of existing houses.

If Akoncity was a scam, does that make it... A Con City?

Facebook trying to use "zucky" as a positive description is perhaps the funniest thing I've heard all day 😅

Cities where people work for the company that own the town means the money they spend pretty much goes back to the company that gives them a salary, an absolute ethical nightmare

Alright Danny you can stop hiding that you are in fact, a secret billionaire. Go build us a city big boy.

hearing "he was going to dig a hole that could fit 200 people" sounds like someone preparing a mass grave

My great grandparents fought in the street to defeat oil barons running feudal style cities with their own bespoke currency and we are just like "okay Facebook, why not!?"

6:45 They weren't temporary, they just tried to claim they were temporary because they didn't have the proper building permits for a permanent structure. The concrete foundations clearly indicated they were intended to be permanent, which is what the article was suggesting.

Danny, you have to build Greg Town as a competitor to Kurtis Town. I’ve heard they’re growing quicker by the day, we don’t want them becoming the fastest growing army on the internet.

Elon's town is almost exactly the same as what mining companies did in the early 1900s. They would build towns with houses, supermarkets etc. for their employees to live in. These mining companies would then pay their employees with fake currency that could ONLY be used in that town and couldn't be converted to any other currency, so employees couldn't quit or leave the town.

5:50 "envisaged" is a real world, Daniel

Hey Danny! I usually don't comment but thought it was important to mention to you and others: just letting you know that foods like Sunday's dog food put dogs at risk for things like nutritional DCM (a heart disease that is preventable in breeds that aren't likely to get it) and pancreatic due to the fat levels. A lot of these dog foods don't even do the bare minimum of feeding trials. These companies can afford to hire nutritionists, do studies, feeding trials, and remain on the side of wsava complacent guidelines and they refuse to. We all want more options on what to feed our dogs, but grain-free foods or foods with a lot of legumes can cause as much of an issue if they're not formulated correctly. Grains and the like are good for dogs that aren't allergic to it, and these foods abuse the fact that we associate human grade with good. If you want to feed your dogs fresh food, consult a nutritional vet. Not a regular vet, as most vets aren't super knowledgeable in proper nutrition to guide you on that. Sorry for the long message, I just want to avoid people losing their dogs to foods made by people who don't care

Danny really looking like minecraft steve

8:46 that's STRAIGHT UP A VIBRATOR

I like to think all these headlines are fully literal and all these rich people are building these cities by hand "Kanye West tried to build a city in Wyoming" really hits different when you picture him laying every brick by hand

For the city planning aspect mentioned at 10:15, yes builders plan all of that out ahead of time, where the residential area is, commercial, industrial etc. They didn't do that when we were first settling/stealing the land, but any new development has a shitload of planning before it's built,

"i'm from yecosystem, wyoming" -classic hole-person catchphrase

corporations trying to build their own cities for their employees shows a distinct lack of knowledge of their own country's history. people tried that already. it didnt work out. there were deaths.

Seems like people who want to build towns might have too much money. Maybe they should have higher taxes, actually put money into existing towns. Just a thought.

As some have already commented, the "live where you work" cities were popular during the period of the gold and silver mining boom. It did not go well. It was a giant scam. Which were built by the companies that owned the gold and silver mines, of course. That's what a couple of these remind me of. They had their own currency and everything.

you kinda look like ned flames aka fox szn

9:00 fun fact I learned when I wanted to be an architect: there is a good reason most buildings are all square, it’s because when you have all those weird rounded corners it makes designing rooms REALLY hard, because they end up with all these wonky curved areas which don’t accommodate pretty much any pre existing furniture

As someone currently living and raising a family on a military base, it can be really bizarre and isolating when I dont leave base for a few days. It is definitely not always enjoyable to live and work in a fenced in area.

Real missed opportunity not saying they’d go from homeless to domeless

Danny, you are in this club. BUILD US A GREG CITY!!! #gregcity

FUN FACT: Disney's EPCOT center was originally gonna be one of these cities! They were common during the 19th-20th century, and walt Disney had planned on a city of the future. He of course died before he could begin actually making the city, and his execs and brother thought the city was a bad idea so just built a park instead. If you wanna know more than Defunctland has a great video about the topic!

The hard, crunchy texture of most kibbles is actually very good for dog's teeth. Especially if they don't let you brush them or anything, kibble can help scrape away the tartar on their teeth. Also, I didn't hear any grains in the ingredient list, and can't find any listed on their website. Make sure your dogs have grain in their diet! Grain free foods have been linked to dilated cardiomyopathy, which is basically when the heart gets so big that it has trouble contracting, and it eventually leads to heart failure/death. I hope this helps!

"Envisage" seems to be a more concrete, practical version of "envision" which is more metaphorical and abstract in nature - in case anyone was wondering.

I love that Kanye see's Tatooine in Star Wars, a lawless wasteland. See's Obi-Wan call it "The most retched hive of scum and villainy" and Kanye is just like "Damn, that's the kind of city I want to live in."

Hi, someone who grew up in Menlo Park, California before it became what is now known as 'Zucktown' here. We lived in the low-income apartments next to Facebook HQ. Can confirm that the entire area is becoming a gentrified mess. They started with building more office spaces and parking lots. Next came brand new apartments for what I can assume is the employees. And next, came us. They gave us a notice that they were tearing down our apartments to build brand new ones with more commodities. Sounds great, except they didn't let many of us go back when they finished. So here all of us are, scrambling to find a new place to rent. Except, rents in Menlo Park are $4000. We were one of the lucky ones who barely qualified for a mortgage for a new house. The same cannot be said for many other low-income families. I don't know what they plan to do with the rest of the area, and I am actually a little saddened. I lived there almost my entire life and seeing it change so much bothers me. I can only hope the changes don't negatively affect the remaining residents as much as it affected the rest of us. And actually, I didn't know about Zucktown despite having lived there until watching this video. Thanks for the great video, Danny. :)

@1:10 thank you! The middle east is not just one country!😭

11:05 if you’re wondering, it’s a joke about how architects will come up with ridiculous designs and make the engineers deal with actually making it possible

funny thing is that those reflective curve buildings will cause extremely concentrated areas of heat/radiation to the point that it’ll be a health hazard. it happened before with a building like this and they had to cover it bc it was melting cars and shit

The Facebook city said it would be 59 acres. For context, Baltimore is 59 THOUSAND acres. My suburban town is about 9,500 acres. The University of Maryland College Park campus is 1,340 acres. But 59 acres is supposed to be a city?

not them calling akon a ringtone superstar 😂 11:57

2040: Rich people keep trying to build Interplanetary cities and bases

wow I sure do love that company towns are coming back. They worked so well the first time

“I thought cities were built as things are needed” That’s how the POORS do it, Danny

13:38 he tried so hard not to say "reachsome"

11:10 yes, it is every architect's dream. ever since i decided i wanted to be an architect and started studying it, i have been having dreams about these exact buildings.

Town planning is definitely a thing. You can tell when a city was planned versus when it just started and expanded naturally.

I worked for a dome construction company for about 3 years. We spent most of out time remodeling living rooms and backyards with enlarged, semicircle sitting areas. Built exactly 0 full domes.

Hey! I just wanted to point out the thing Danny said about the “planning out” cities before building them. It’s actually called urbanism. It was pretty popular in Ancient Rome and Greece, where they would plan out exactly where each buildings are going to be, instead of building houses one by one. Thank you for allowing me to yap about stuff from my freshman art history class. Hope it made sense.

16:32 THE GATE???

Urban planner here! You do in fact plan exactly what goes where before building a brand new city to ensure all the necessary infrastructure is in place, not a bunch of film studios though. Which is why it's wild to me that Kanye was supposedly hiring everybody but urban planners...probably the reason why he's failing 💀

15:50 this is literally just medieval fuedalism

11:24 You went to Gatech. You should KNOW that this is every architects dream and every engineers nightmare

My grandparents lived on Phillips 66 property.. they had a post office and schools... My grandpa was a chemist for Phillips so he lived and worked there....UNTIL... The plant blew up and altough he continued to work there, they had to literally pick up their house and move it to a different town!

The Walt Disney fascination with space travel to acquisition of farmland to futuristic city planning pipeline strikes again

0:18 "billionaires don't control the government yet" that's a good one! a banger within the first the first thirty seconds

0:07 genuinely thought jeff bezos was Trixie Mattel for a second💀😭😭

Hershey, PA was founded as a corporate town, started by Hershey's of course. There were some real positives at the time, modern amenities in the houses plus free school for the kids of employees as well as free vocational schooling to orphaned and underprivileged people to learn to work in the factory. I'm sure there was also shady stuff going on (I'm in no means an expert on this) but let's be real, there's no way I trust Zuck and Kanye to even consider schooling as a concept for their towns, let alone have them be free.

On a more serious note, we do have cities like this in Indonesia. Almost totally governed by the billionaire-owned developers.

Well to be fair they aren't the first musical artist to build a city, Starship built a city on Rock and Roll

Henry Ford trying building a city in Brazil back in the 20s. Sort of a wild story, and the city was akin to a ghost town in the early 2000s. The name's Fordlandia (Fordland), very interesting to see how this remains a trend among large companies to this day, and it seems like it still doesn't work out lol

None of these futuristic cities are for us common people, like theyre all for the rich folk. Also these projects of making these futuristic cities serve like no practical purpose on why theyre there in the first place like Telosa, The Line, Egypts New New city, etc.

haha I went to that sponsor's site. The biggest red flag: they do not have prices everywhere. They want you really emotionally invested before you see any costs!

Quick note as a veterinarian- if you do choose to move your dog onto fresh food, even if if it's dried, you HAVE to be feeding them normal dog food along side it. I beg you to remember an animal is not a human and they can't get everything they need to live healthily from a "fresh food" diet. Dog and cat food is manufactured specifically to tick the boxes of health in your pet. Those "synthetic nutrients" ARE nutarians made to help you pet stay healthy. Fresh food, even dried, is great! It is NOT a replacement.

@9:22 Danny you also forgot to mention in the middle of NOWHERE😂

13:52 59 acres is very small in reality, which is not nearly enough room for a city.

12:38 I guess you could say it was "A CON"

I mean, Walt Disney wanted to make Epcot a little civilization where he was basically a dictator, and then he died so they turned it into a tourist attraction

“Phallic high rise” is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard this man say 💀

Well, this is honestly terrifying. I love how they keep labelling it as a "utopia" when we all know it's a dystopia for everyone but the rich

Snailbrook sounds like a town from a mid 2000s disney channel movie

Fun fact, in some small countries in west Africa, rich architects actually are planning and building really big complexes. Especially in Gambia and Senegal. I think it’s more of an apartment/housing complex with stores and stuff rather than an autonomous city but still. It’s a thing!

I actually have some experience with communities built by corporations. There was one close to where I grew up, with the company having a lot of factories in different industries over a large compound, and they also built a lot of houses, a community pool and sports areas, even two schools (one of which I went to). It was actually once of the greenest and most peaceful neighbourhoods around, as they had people caring for the place, so the air always smelled really fresh. The factories were some distance away from the actual living areas. The school and pool and stuff was originally intended for the employees' families, but because the quality of the facilities were good they also attracted a lot of people who weren't related to the city. From what I heard it was quite safe for kids to play and run around, and also your house would depend on what position the employee worked in. I never really thought about it being kinda dystopian until now lol, it was so normal for me growing up.

Of course, build your own city. Because that went so well for Walt Disney and Henry Ford

13:08 possibly one of the most dystopian things I’ve ever heard. Makes me think of I have no mouth and I must scream

Danny not knowing “envisaged” is a word is filling me with energy I can’t describe

about how cities are built: there are different types of cities, some are organic like you said but when building a settlement like the romans did they actually had all of the areas in the city planned out, like the theatre, the market, etc.

I actually lived in a tiny mining town my dad worked at for a few years, so corporations owning/running the places their employees live at probably happens more often than we'd think.

Danny saying billionaires don't already have control over the government is hilarious

The fact that Kanye West tried to make a 200 person mass-grave called the ‘Yecosystem’ is incredible. (I say mass-grave because a 200 person mass-grave-esque hole isn’t a city, it’s something out of the bubonic plague, or if you want to call it that: an ultra-utilitarian underground zone.)

How did he do a whole Sunday's dog food brand deal without mentioning that his dog's name is literally Sundae

For most cities in the world, yes. They were little groups of houses around a stream that continued on growing. A lot of American cities were fully planned out from the get go. Uninhabited land (for whatever reason) is used to blueprint a city atop

Oh man, I bet all those miners at the Boring Company are going to love the idea of living in a company-controlled town. Absolutely no historical precedent to draw upon to evaluate that decision.

WE GOTTA MAKE KURTISTOWN A REAL PLACE NEXT FELLAS 🙏🔥🗣️‼️

Triangle Tents are the pinnacle of dwelling technology. A dumpster home could work too but ONLY if you’re trying to be all fancy pants about it. 😁

I have a feeling that Grimes' main contribution was naming the town Snailbrook

Surprisingly, dome shaped houses are not only not new, they're super environmentally friendly and safe when constructed correctly. Check out the super adobe eco domes from the CalEarth institute in Hesperia, CA, one of them apparently survived a 7.6 magnitude earthquake in Nepal, which is kinda legit tbh.

Tech billionaires re-inventing the company town. The last time we had these, there was literal warfare, but it's probably fine this time. It'll work great, no machine guns required. See also Sorry To Bother You.

Epcot was originally supposed to be a socially engineered town. Also, remember when you were a kid and you would design your mansion on the back of the paper placemats? This is that.

Towns run by companies sounds perfectly fine and I'm sure a quick search for "company towns" will not in anyway make me want to set things on fire with my mind.

I am almost 100% certain that building a “futuristic city” is just a cover for sweatshops to produce cheap merch

12:50 you could say it was A-con

6:17 you don't know Danny... maybe that IS it!

If Danny builds Greg City it would be paradise on Earth

Planning out all the building is actually pretty common for new towns and cities nowadays. There are a lot of planned cities where they already have everything planned and then just build it in stages. An advantage of planning everything from the start is that the urban planning can be really efficient which makes it a lot nicer for the people living there. You can make sure everything is in walking distance and that all the roads will be able to handle the necessary traffic.

you joked about putting the homeless in a giant boot, but my collage town has a boot shaped house (used as part of a charity for people with family in the prison system) it's actually pretty cool

"A city that's just a hole underground" That really sounds like something from Fallout

10:14 im an urban planning student and planned cities are definitely a thing! A lot of cities started out as planned cities, especially capitals. The capital of Brazil is a good example.

15:50 the most genuine "are the houses in the room with us"

7:17 I swear he says parrots 🦜 here and not carrots 🥕 😂

The under bar said “2 Danny 2 furious 2 minutes ago”

i love how as i’m watching his old videos he makes a new one

In Italy (Veneto, tbp) we have a city (pretty big too) where all of the employees of one dude decided to build houses to be closer to the main building of the factory. Now the dude is dead, but people still thinks of him like their major or smth. They still refer to it as "Alte Ceccato" (Ceccato being the name of the guy). And it's not even the first one! There's one called "Rosignano Solvay" and it's the same thing as the other one. People worked for Solvay and they started to live near it creating a city. There's also a beach with white foam made from the chemicals of the factory and people bathe in it (wild, I know). So yeah, Mr. Zucky could be onto something there 😅

As an architecture student, I must say that the right thing to do when studying urbanism is to plan everything in the city, where things are heavily influence how the city functions. So yes, Akon was kind of right in planning, but I do think these buildings in this format will be every engineer's nightmare.

akon is a fever dream that man gave us the sweet escape with gwen stefani, smack that with eminem AND chammak challo in the same lifetime. insane.

On a serious note, corporations already do this with migrant workers. It's a very big problem in Canada, you have no idea just how unethical it is for your employer to also be your landlord. Trust me, corporations housing their workers should be illegal. It puts workers in positions where they can easily be, at the very least taken advantage of, and at the very worst, horribly abused.