I would seriously look into buying an entire town or city.

From there I would invite in workers able to work at least 30 hours a week of physical labor. Specifically looking for the following at first

• Farmers to try to set up an internal food production.

• Construction workers to build new units and repair old ones.

• A few lawyers to cover my ass. (They also have other work if there isn't lawyering to be done.)

• People with expertise on how to create factories for manufacturing certain products. With the goal of creating income for the town outside of my dwindling wealth. I have no idea what though. This is the area I am the least knowledgeable about.

• Personally I'm a useless tech guy. So I'd set up a jellyfin server to replace streaming for everyone in town and some other self hosted solutions that I could make available for everyone in town. Outside of that I guess I'd manage and organize the other people. 🤷

I think I'd set something up so if you live in town for like 5 years I just give you the unit/ house your staying in. Before that it's free to stay assuming you're working in town. But with stipulations you can't sell it to folks from outside of town. ( I want to avoid rich people buying up blocks of town to resell for profit.)

My ultimate goal would be to grow the town into a city sized commune. Transition all of the little businesses into co-ops and obviously transition the company town style power id have over the place at first into something more democratic