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Before WWII, companies in NL did this kind of stuff to make the lives of their employees better. Philips built housing and sportsclubs in Eindhoven, https://en

Before WWII, companies in NL did this kind of stuff to make the lives of their employees better. Philips built housing and sportsclubs in Eindhoven, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSV_Eindhoven https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PSV_Eindhoven. Bata ( shoes ) built housing for their employees in Batadorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batadorp https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batadorp. The Dutch railroad built a 'Tuindorp', including school, in Haren, which I grew up in, https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuindorp_(wijk) https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuindorp_(wijk) There are more.

238475235243 5y ago
Alibaba isn't doing this voluntarily... They disappeared Jack Ma for re-education and he came back with wonderful ideas about donating all profits to the CCP.
- throwaway4good 5y ago
  Poor Jack could have been in outer space with Jeff now ...
  - bamboozled 5y ago
    Are you implying he deserved it?
    - throwaway4good 5y ago
      I was making a joke. But I don’t know? Would it have been better, more fair that Jack went into space in a billion dollar rocket than he was forced to spend the money on “common prosperity”?
throwaway4good 5y ago
There is similar thinking in "classical" American capatalism from Henry Ford's idea that his factory workers needed to make enough money to buy the cars they produced to all sort of concrete projects for the broader society. This is a story about housing built by the Ford motor company: https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797 https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797 I am sure there are many other examples.
- 238475235243 5y ago
  If you read a biography of Ford you'll find this story just isn't really true. He couldn't find workers and had to raise the wages, and in doing got a lot of PR by spinning it as being good for workers to buy cars.
chewz 5y ago
Same in Poland before WW2. These greedy capitalists from late XIX/ early XX c. had felt necessity to build housing for their workers and nurseries for workers children.. What a waste of productive capital. My grandfather had been worker / specialist and my family had been living in factory’s housing (free rent, electricity and coal provided). And grandfather had been earning a decent wage too. Some long forgotten small steelwork company… (On the other hand my grandfather had no sense of work-life balance. He had been living for his factory. Even when retired he had been going to factory every day to check if he can help with something). From my Moms side many relatives had been railwaymen and their families also lived in housing projects provided by Railway company..

238475235243 5y ago

Alibaba isn't doing this voluntarily... They disappeared Jack Ma for re-education and he came back with wonderful ideas about donating all profits to the CCP.

throwaway4good 5y ago
Poor Jack could have been in outer space with Jeff now ...
- bamboozled 5y ago
  Are you implying he deserved it?
  - throwaway4good 5y ago
    I was making a joke. But I don’t know? Would it have been better, more fair that Jack went into space in a billion dollar rocket than he was forced to spend the money on “common prosperity”?

throwaway4good 5y ago

There is similar thinking in "classical" American capatalism from Henry Ford's idea that his factory workers needed to make enough money to buy the cars they produced to all sort of concrete projects for the broader society. This is a story about housing built by the Ford motor company: https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797 https://askus.thehenryford.org/faq/169797 I am sure there are many other examples.

238475235243 5y ago
If you read a biography of Ford you'll find this story just isn't really true. He couldn't find workers and had to raise the wages, and in doing got a lot of PR by spinning it as being good for workers to buy cars.

chewz 5y ago

Same in Poland before WW2. These greedy capitalists from late XIX/ early XX c. had felt necessity to build housing for their workers and nurseries for workers children.. What a waste of productive capital. My grandfather had been worker / specialist and my family had been living in factory’s housing (free rent, electricity and coal provided). And grandfather had been earning a decent wage too. Some long forgotten small steelwork company… (On the other hand my grandfather had no sense of work-life balance. He had been living for his factory. Even when retired he had been going to factory every day to check if he can help with something). From my Moms side many relatives had been railwaymen and their families also lived in housing projects provided by Railway company..