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title: "Stephen Williams No one's promising Utopia. If CM residents don't..."
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# Stephen Williams No one's promising Utopia. If CM residents don't...

*May 2, 2024 — Comment Archer T. Ships replied to Stephen Williams's comment.*

Stephen Williams No one's promising Utopia. If CM residents don't like the terms of the contract, they are free to leave.  There's currently a waiting list to get in, so by their own lights, many local Hondurans must think it's an improvement over the status quo.  CM must still follow Honduran criminal law.  Residents cannot vote on the terms of the CM contract, it's true, but if CM's owners fail to make CM a desirable place to live, the residents will leave, and  CM owners will lose money.  So CM city managers are responsive to suggestions. And, unlike the Honduran government, which extorts money from Hondurans with no promise to deliver anything of value in return, CM's relationship to its residents is governed by a contract.  If CM fails to deliver on its promises, then the residents can refuse payment or sue them for damages. Having a vote doesn't seem to have prevented Honduras from becoming a dirty, impoverished, high crime country.  Maybe it's time to try something else.