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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up152·10 hours agoThose already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 hour 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-up3·4 hours agoAsk Appalachia about company towns. Folks here at least ought to know better.
minus-squareMaggoty@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·5 hours 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-up2·edit-21 hour 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-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·7 hours agoAnd what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
Those already have a name - company town.
They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
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.
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
You load sixteen tons 🎶
And what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…