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Headline: Innovative company reinvents company town. Visionary leaders hope to drive employees into debt and eventually forced servitude.

labster 3y ago
Headline: You’ll never guess what this worker got for hauling sixteen tons
- tommica 3y ago
  Nothing!
- orwin 3y ago
  Another day older and deeper in debt?
autoexec 3y ago
I can't wait until they start paying their people in company scrip! Walmart already tried to bring it back to Mexico in 2008 (https://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex/court-outlaws-wal-mart-de-mexico-worker-vouchers-idUSN0546591320080905 https://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex/court-outlaws-...)
- fathyb 3y ago
  Isn't this similar to McDonald's point system? Workers get points as they work, different menu items cost a certain amount of points. They have to use all points (and eat their terrible food) before a certain period, else they lose them.
  - autoexec 3y ago
    If McDonald's is taking money out of people's paychecks and replacing it with McPoints or whatever they call them, then yes. Companies can give prizes or awards on top of paying their usual wages with actual money, but as soon as they start paying people less because they're compensating them with fake money it's a problem.
pc86 3y ago
Headline: This isn't a company town and nobody is going into debt to the company. I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  >I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy. How deliciously ironic. How about, from the very article itself: "So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy. "
  - pc86 3y ago
    The article is about Cook Medical, which is having homes built and arranging for them to be sold to employees. Nobody is renting anything. In fact, the line you quoted is from the first of exactly two paragraphs in the entire story that mentions any other companies (and the second is a historical reference).
mikestew 3y ago
I'm astounded that someone could read TFA, as I'm sure you did, and come away with that summary. Because it's the summary I might come up with if I read only the headline and was in a hurry to let the world view my hot take.
- tsgagnon 3y ago
  So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy. You can't image where the connection to company towns could come from in an article about people renting from their employers?
  - fugalfervor 3y ago
    > You can't image where the connection to company towns could come from in an article about people renting from their employers? You didn't read the article. The homes are for sale, not for rent.

labster 3y ago

Headline: You’ll never guess what this worker got for hauling sixteen tons

tommica 3y ago
Nothing!
orwin 3y ago
Another day older and deeper in debt?

autoexec 3y ago

I can't wait until they start paying their people in company scrip! Walmart already tried to bring it back to Mexico in 2008 (https://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex/court-outlaws-wal-mart-de-mexico-worker-vouchers-idUSN0546591320080905 https://www.reuters.com/article/mexico-walmex/court-outlaws-...)

fathyb 3y ago
Isn't this similar to McDonald's point system? Workers get points as they work, different menu items cost a certain amount of points. They have to use all points (and eat their terrible food) before a certain period, else they lose them.
- autoexec 3y ago
  If McDonald's is taking money out of people's paychecks and replacing it with McPoints or whatever they call them, then yes. Companies can give prizes or awards on top of paying their usual wages with actual money, but as soon as they start paying people less because they're compensating them with fake money it's a problem.

pc86 3y ago

Headline: This isn't a company town and nobody is going into debt to the company. I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy.

mrguyorama 3y ago
>I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy. How deliciously ironic. How about, from the very article itself: "So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy. "
- pc86 3y ago
  The article is about Cook Medical, which is having homes built and arranging for them to be sold to employees. Nobody is renting anything. In fact, the line you quoted is from the first of exactly two paragraphs in the entire story that mentions any other companies (and the second is a historical reference).

mikestew 3y ago

I'm astounded that someone could read TFA, as I'm sure you did, and come away with that summary. Because it's the summary I might come up with if I read only the headline and was in a hurry to let the world view my hot take.

tsgagnon 3y ago
So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy. You can't image where the connection to company towns could come from in an article about people renting from their employers?
- fugalfervor 3y ago
  > You can't image where the connection to company towns could come from in an article about people renting from their employers? You didn't read the article. The homes are for sale, not for rent.