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You cannot kick out the poor, because you need them to clean for you and make your food. At best you can price them out of living next to you.
by dagw 3y ago
You cannot kick out the poor, because you need them to clean for you and make your food. At best you can price them out of living next to you.
- lazide 3y agoThat’s why you make them live next door (or far away) and commute. That’s the plan with this community right, since the folks there must work for the company? If the company doesn’t keep them employed, voila they must leave. And presumably the company is not going to hire (or allow to live there) ‘undesirables’.
- dagw 3y agoThat’s the plan with this community right, since the folks there must work for the company? It's not that sort of company town. The Company is the town and the town is the The Company. They will own all the buildings and infrastructure, be responsible for providing all the services and as such get to decide who gets to live there and how, but they'll be doing so with a goal of running a profitable company/town. The people living there won't (necessarily) be working for the company. As long as you can pay, agree to live by their rules and aren't 'undesirable' in any other way you can potentially live there.
- lazide 3y agoDisney has a similar setup - and you have to be working there or a ‘guest’ (aka customer) usually via a paid pass to get in. It’s the same thing, just with no customers being able to show up on site no? Or do you think the company will allow randomly renting to non-employees in the housing? Or subletting or something?
- dagw 3y agodo you think the company will allow randomly renting to non-employees in the housing? Or subletting or something? The housing won't be (primarily) for company employees, but for anybody who can pay and gets approved. Most company employees will in fact probably be people doing maintenance and providing services to the residents, and they almost certainly won't be able to afford to live in the the town.