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Homeless converted to live-in slaves. Sounds nice! Company towns are coming back, and probably going to be worse than ever, with big brother FB planning on doin
by deft 8y ago
Homeless converted to live-in slaves. Sounds nice! Company towns are coming back, and probably going to be worse than ever, with big brother FB planning on doing similar.
- lwhalen 8y agoThis was my first thought too. Don't know why you're getting down-voted because of it.
- eloff 8y agoThese people are free to leave whenever they like. They're not enslaved physically, financially, or otherwise. Don't just throw around words like slavery casually. There is a huge difference between slavery and a job.
- djrobstep 8y agoApart from the fact that you get to choose which company you're forced to generate profit for, not really.
- leetcrew 8y agothe threat of being homeless if you quit your job is quite severe, but i'm not sure it's an apples-to-apples comparison to a situation where people will chase you down and whip you near to death if you try to leave.
- djrobstep 8y agoIt absolutely the same. Try continuing to use food and shelter but without the money to pay for it: you'll be attacked by men with guns and thrown in a cage. Sometimes they'll even shoot you.
- ahoy 8y agoFree to go live under the bridge again. Complete freedom.
- eloff 8y agoFree to find another job...
- noobermin 8y agoWhy is this being downvoted, this is exactly what this is. If anything, this incentivizes making people homeless. Instead of dealing with what causes homelessness we are instead profiting off of the fact that they are homeless. Moreover, there is something insidious about it being run by a real estate company, an entity that might very well have contributed to homelessness in the first place.
- pmiller2 8y agoI'm upvoting this because I find it interesting. I'm not entirely sure I agree, but your point that having one's employer also be one's landlord puts way too much power in a single entity is certainly valid. However, apartment management gigs are frequently part-time-ish, with on call hours. I've known a few apartment managers who have outside income. In a small complex, say 30 units, the job can be done by an onsite individual on a part time basis. For that sort of scenario, I would expect that the pay comes largely in the form of subsidized rent. For a larger apartment complex, I would expect that the pay would increase commensurately.