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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up212·7 天前Those already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up135·7 天前But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
minus-squarej_elgato@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·6 天前I mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·6 天前Right. They worked very well for the companies!
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·7 天前You load sixteen tons 🎶
minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·6 天前And what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·6 天前I’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·6 天前They didn’t just fail on their own. They were very successful until the labor movement decided to meet violence with violence.
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-26 天前Now that’s a tradition I wouldn’t mind we go back to, seems like the only way we ever got labor protections in this country
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·6 天前America is truly going back to its roots. American towns, ethnic cleansing of native populations, all that’s missing is chattel slavery (of course we still got that modern slavery). This crumbling empire deserves to collapse, and collapse quickly The Un-American, yet totally American | Company Towns
minus-squareSOB_Van_Owen@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·6 天前Ask Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
minus-squarethe_fuzz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 天前It’s more insidious than that: https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no%3Fsi%3Dfev-OzgZmzcUfsPW&t=1
Those already have a name - company town.
They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
I mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
Right. They worked very well for the companies!
You load sixteen tons 🎶
And what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
I’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
They didn’t just fail on their own. They were very successful until the labor movement decided to meet violence with violence.
Now that’s a tradition I wouldn’t mind we go back to, seems like the only way we ever got labor protections in this country
America is truly going back to its roots. American towns, ethnic cleansing of native populations, all that’s missing is chattel slavery (of course we still got that modern slavery). This crumbling empire deserves to collapse, and collapse quickly
The Un-American, yet totally American | Company Towns
Ask Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
Severance / kier. 😁
It’s more insidious than that:
https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no%3Fsi%3Dfev-OzgZmzcUfsPW&t=1