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This is a proved-wrong path throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town Company towns are one for
by southerntofu 3y ago
This is a proved-wrong path throughout history: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
Company towns are one form of what former slaves called "wage slavery" in that time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_Slavery https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_Slavery
Capitalism is many things but certainly not flat or equalitarian.
- anovikov 3y agoCompany towns existed because people worked for the company and company made money by exploiting them which worked the best when they were effectively locked up in one place. Here, the company will make money by people staying there and paying it, thus they will compete by providing best conditions to everyone.
- malermeister 3y agoWho will they compete with? Wouldn't they have a monopoly in housing in this scenario?
- dagw 3y agoWho will they compete with? The next town over. The theory is that if the town is good enough, rich people will pay a premium to live in this town rather than then one a few miles down the road. Then businesses will pay a premium to rent commercial space there since it will give them access to a 'better' class of customers etc. etc.
- malermeister 3y agoThat implies a complete freedom from all attachment. What if your job is in the worse town? What if your aging parents are?
- dagw 3y agoWhat if your job is in the worse town? What if your aging parents are? You commute, like people do today. Living in one town, working in another and having your parents in a third sounds completely normal
- rwmj 3y agoOh I see, you're really serious about this.
- dontlaugh 3y agoI choose to believe it’s commitment to the bit.