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Yes, but not ones where you're fenced in with barbed wire and can't leave. I thought the concept of company towns was more financial and economic slavery, eg y

Yes, but not ones where you're fenced in with barbed wire and can't leave. I thought the concept of company towns was more financial and economic slavery, eg your company gives you a mortgage to a buy a house from the company, all near work so you can work long hours, and you're essentially an indentured servant. But this is actual slavery, these people are literally locked in and can't leave except by crawling over barbed wire fences.

xuki 4y ago
They can’t leave because of COVID restrictions not because of Apple.
- SkyMarshal 4y ago
  Was that barbed wire fence constructed recently just for COVID lockdowns, or has it been there the whole time?
  - cjbgkagh 4y ago
    The story I heard was that it was to stop people coming in who wanted to work there. From the video I saw the barbed wire was tilted outwards.
vbezhenar 4y ago
I live in a multi-apartment house. When COVID started, one of tenants was found COVID-positive. Our entire house was locked by authorities for two weeks. It was forbidden to leave it, there was car with policeman and barricades. The only way to get food was to order it with online delivery. It was so crazy. In other cities authorities literally welded doors and cut small windows: https://newtimes.kz/storage/news/news/2020/04/05/5e8973f787be4313162591.jpg https://newtimes.kz/storage/news/news/2020/04/05/5e8973f787b... Thankfully this hysteria did not last long.
- expensive_news 4y ago
  Where do you live? That sounds absolutely insane.
  - vbezhenar 4y ago
    I live in Kazakhstan indeed. It was insane. Over-reacting at its best.
  - sva_ 4y ago
    The link they posted suggests they live in Kazakhstan, to answer your question.
derefr 4y ago
A closer analogy would be to an oilfield "man camp" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGg57r9wK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGg57r9wK0) — temporary housing for a bunch of people who have signed up to do a few months' stint of work in a job that requires them to be in the middle of nowhere to do that job (because that's inherent to the nature of the job.) They're a lot like military encampments, actually. The real question is why these factories are built in the middle of nowhere. There's no clear need for it; no reason they couldn't just be built in cities. They're not heavy industrial polluters or anything that would make people not want them in city limits.
- TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
  Price of the land might be cheaper? Also more space for expansion.
  - foobarian 4y ago
    Or, makes it easier to convince workers to live on-prem, which leads to them working longer hours. 9-9-6!
baybal2 4y ago
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xuki 4y ago

They can’t leave because of COVID restrictions not because of Apple.

SkyMarshal 4y ago
Was that barbed wire fence constructed recently just for COVID lockdowns, or has it been there the whole time?
- cjbgkagh 4y ago
  The story I heard was that it was to stop people coming in who wanted to work there. From the video I saw the barbed wire was tilted outwards.

vbezhenar 4y ago

I live in a multi-apartment house. When COVID started, one of tenants was found COVID-positive. Our entire house was locked by authorities for two weeks. It was forbidden to leave it, there was car with policeman and barricades. The only way to get food was to order it with online delivery. It was so crazy. In other cities authorities literally welded doors and cut small windows: https://newtimes.kz/storage/news/news/2020/04/05/5e8973f787be4313162591.jpg https://newtimes.kz/storage/news/news/2020/04/05/5e8973f787b... Thankfully this hysteria did not last long.

expensive_news 4y ago
Where do you live? That sounds absolutely insane.
- vbezhenar 4y ago
  I live in Kazakhstan indeed. It was insane. Over-reacting at its best.
- sva_ 4y ago
  The link they posted suggests they live in Kazakhstan, to answer your question.

derefr 4y ago

A closer analogy would be to an oilfield "man camp" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGg57r9wK0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbGg57r9wK0) — temporary housing for a bunch of people who have signed up to do a few months' stint of work in a job that requires them to be in the middle of nowhere to do that job (because that's inherent to the nature of the job.) They're a lot like military encampments, actually. The real question is why these factories are built in the middle of nowhere. There's no clear need for it; no reason they couldn't just be built in cities. They're not heavy industrial polluters or anything that would make people not want them in city limits.

TheLoafOfBread 4y ago
Price of the land might be cheaper? Also more space for expansion.
- foobarian 4y ago
  Or, makes it easier to convince workers to live on-prem, which leads to them working longer hours. 9-9-6!

baybal2 4y ago

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