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What exactly are you decrying as "dangerous" here?

callalex 3y ago
The existential risks that residents of a company town face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
calamari4065 3y ago
Historically, companies would build towns for their workers, and pay them in company script that is only valid at company stores. This was effectively a fancy form of slavery with all that entails.
- dabluecaboose 3y ago
  Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. The term is "Scrip"[1], not "script" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
  - olliej 3y ago
    Could be autocarrot - I know in the past for me this was a "correction" they wanted to make, though just now in this thread I didn't have to fight it.
  - deafpolygon 3y ago
    Not to be confused with the crips.
- Freak_NL 3y ago
  scrip*
olliej 3y ago
Company towns are a thing that have existed in the past, and the results are very well documented. It's similar to company scrip (a thing Facebook tried to reintroduce a few years back), and in fact the two concepts support each other. The net effect of both is to give the company extraordinary control of the lives of its employees beyond the time they're actually at work, and that power lets them functionally reduce compensation, and limit the freedom to work elsewhere (you can't get a new job without also moving, but it's also been made difficult to live outside of the company town while working for the company, etc).
newsclues 3y ago
The precarious nature of some workers lives doesn’t seem much different is their landlord is their employer or another corporation or a private capitalist. I also don’t see how this is more dangerous than the status quo.
- Ekaros 3y ago
  It could be lot worse. At least with other capitalist there is some competition. But with company owned housing you could have setup of them giving discounts to employees. And this discount effectively being part of compensation. So when you change job, you would need much higher change in compensation or you would have to leave... Tenant protections of not being immediately kicked out when you are laid-off or resign could be circumvented in many ways...
ShadowBanThis01 3y ago
I love how some insecure asses downvoted a simple question. Way to elevate the site.

The existential risks that residents of a company town face. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town

calamari4065 3y ago

Historically, companies would build towns for their workers, and pay them in company script that is only valid at company stores. This was effectively a fancy form of slavery with all that entails.

dabluecaboose 3y ago
Sorry, this is a pet peeve of mine. The term is "Scrip"[1], not "script" [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrip
- olliej 3y ago
  Could be autocarrot - I know in the past for me this was a "correction" they wanted to make, though just now in this thread I didn't have to fight it.
- deafpolygon 3y ago
  Not to be confused with the crips.
Freak_NL 3y ago
scrip*

olliej 3y ago

Company towns are a thing that have existed in the past, and the results are very well documented. It's similar to company scrip (a thing Facebook tried to reintroduce a few years back), and in fact the two concepts support each other. The net effect of both is to give the company extraordinary control of the lives of its employees beyond the time they're actually at work, and that power lets them functionally reduce compensation, and limit the freedom to work elsewhere (you can't get a new job without also moving, but it's also been made difficult to live outside of the company town while working for the company, etc).

newsclues 3y ago

The precarious nature of some workers lives doesn’t seem much different is their landlord is their employer or another corporation or a private capitalist. I also don’t see how this is more dangerous than the status quo.

Ekaros 3y ago
It could be lot worse. At least with other capitalist there is some competition. But with company owned housing you could have setup of them giving discounts to employees. And this discount effectively being part of compensation. So when you change job, you would need much higher change in compensation or you would have to leave... Tenant protections of not being immediately kicked out when you are laid-off or resign could be circumvented in many ways...

ShadowBanThis01 3y ago

I love how some insecure asses downvoted a simple question. Way to elevate the site.