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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up212·2 days agoThose already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up135·2 days agoBut before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
minus-squarej_elgato@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·2 days agoI mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·2 days agoRight. They worked very well for the companies!
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·2 days agoYou load sixteen tons 🎶
minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·2 days agoAnd what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 days agoI’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·2 days 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-21 day 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-up9·1 day 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-up6·2 days agoAsk Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
minus-squarethe_fuzz@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day 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
Severance / kier. 😁
Ask Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
It’s more insidious than that:
https://piped.wireway.ch/watch?v=5RpPTRcz1no%3Fsi%3Dfev-OzgZmzcUfsPW&t=1