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Amazon company town. Born into Amazon baby diapers, raised in Amazon communal housing, worked at the Amazon warehouse, buried in an Amazon coffin. Rents extra

Amazon company town. Born into Amazon baby diapers, raised in Amazon communal housing, worked at the Amazon warehouse, buried in an Amazon coffin. Rents extracted at every stage of the process. Look up 'feudal serfdom in medieval Europe' or 'company towns in the American Gilded Age' for similar projects.

hilyen 4y ago
People need to stand up to the corruption and wealth inequality, or this isn't just some far off concern, it will happen. These big companies are quite happily enjoying the same scenario internationally where workers live at their factories. Don't for a second think they won't do it here.
gtirloni 4y ago
I think you're exaggerating a lot here. Is this some dystopian short story?
- hilyen 4y ago
  read this https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/company-towns/ https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/compa... https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising-the-battle-of-blair-mountain https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising...
  - gtirloni 4y ago
    I'm fully aware of such history. I'm asking if you think Amazon is doing this right now? Any sources?
- bregma 4y ago
  Or a Springsteen song?
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mmarq 4y ago
Nothing can be worse than the London private rental market
katz_ 4y ago
If you don’t want people to pay rent then you reject the concept of a societal meta-organism. The only problem with that is that another country will lean into the meta organism concept and become much stronger than everyone who doesn’t. Which will result in the economic or military destruction of those people.
- InefficientRed 4y ago
  Rent extractors are always full of shit, but "pay rent or you will be destroyed by a foreign meta-organism" is a new one.
  - katz_ 4y ago
uptownfunk 4y ago
This should be upvoted more - this is the natural destination where all of this leads. With growing wealth inequality - people will have less and less.. We are on the fast track to a revolution. What will end up happening is the metaverse will become the new "bread and circuses" of the plutocracy As long as the bread and circus is there the people will grow fat and happy. Soon it will be "I metaverse therefore I am?"

hilyen 4y ago

People need to stand up to the corruption and wealth inequality, or this isn't just some far off concern, it will happen. These big companies are quite happily enjoying the same scenario internationally where workers live at their factories. Don't for a second think they won't do it here.

gtirloni 4y ago

I think you're exaggerating a lot here. Is this some dystopian short story?

hilyen 4y ago
read this https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/company-towns/ https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/compa... https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising-the-battle-of-blair-mountain https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising...
- gtirloni 4y ago
  I'm fully aware of such history. I'm asking if you think Amazon is doing this right now? Any sources?
bregma 4y ago
Or a Springsteen song?

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mmarq 4y ago

Nothing can be worse than the London private rental market

katz_ 4y ago

If you don’t want people to pay rent then you reject the concept of a societal meta-organism. The only problem with that is that another country will lean into the meta organism concept and become much stronger than everyone who doesn’t. Which will result in the economic or military destruction of those people.

InefficientRed 4y ago
Rent extractors are always full of shit, but "pay rent or you will be destroyed by a foreign meta-organism" is a new one.
- katz_ 4y ago

uptownfunk 4y ago

This should be upvoted more - this is the natural destination where all of this leads. With growing wealth inequality - people will have less and less.. We are on the fast track to a revolution. What will end up happening is the metaverse will become the new "bread and circuses" of the plutocracy As long as the bread and circus is there the people will grow fat and happy. Soon it will be "I metaverse therefore I am?"