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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up209·4 个月前Those already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up134·4 个月前But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
minus-squarej_elgato@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·4 个月前I mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·4 个月前Right. They worked very well for the companies!
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up33·4 个月前You load sixteen tons 🎶
minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·4 个月前And what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up4·4 个月前I’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up18·4 个月前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-24 个月前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-up9·4 个月前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-up6·4 个月前Ask Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
minus-squarethe_fuzz@lemm.eecakelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 个月前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