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minus-squarePyroNeurosis@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up166·10 hours agoThose already have a name - company town. They failed the last time they were tried and will fail again.
minus-squareKeeponstalin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 hours 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-up9·6 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-22 hours 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-squareironhydroxide@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up101·10 hours agoBut before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
minus-squareCharlesDarwin@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 hours agoRight. They worked very well for the companies!
minus-squarej_elgato@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up8·8 hours agoI mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
minus-squareAbnormalHumanBeing@lemmy.abnormalbeings.spacelinkfedilinkarrow-up28·9 hours agoYou load sixteen tons 🎶
minus-squareGrool The Demon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 hours agoAnd what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt…
minus-squareVoroxpete@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·8 hours agoI’m always torn between this version and the Johnny Cash one.
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
But before they failed, they stole a ton of labor/profit from the residents.
Right. They worked very well for the companies!
I mean, they can only steal so much / so quickly WITHOUT building them…
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.