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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up212·1 month agoThose already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up135·1 month agoBut before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
minus-squarej_elgato@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 month agoI mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·1 month agoRight. They worked very well for the companies!
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 month agoYou load sixteen tons 🎶
minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·1 month agoAnd what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoI’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·1 month agoThey 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-230 days agoNow 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-up9·30 days agoAmerica 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-up6·1 month agoAsk Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
minus-squarethe_fuzz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·30 days agoIt’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