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Sounds like the mine owner opening up a mine shop for the miners where they can spend their mining earnings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_coal_miner

• spacehome 12y ago
  Except for the fact it's nothing like that at all. The perks are free, and employees are generally paid well - when compared to other professions, if, perhaps not their value add.
  • insaneirish 12y ago
    > The perks are free Haha. That's cute.
    • smm2000 12y ago
      Perks are at least 60% free because company pays for them with pre-tax money (no income tax/payroll taxes).
    • logn 12y ago
      The problem with the "company store" was that they paid employees less than their cost of living. And the store sold them items on credit, thus they could never leave the company. This hardly applies to Google or their peers unless you consider the pain of doing your own laundry and cooking your own meals as comparable to crushing debt; which it's not.
    • spacehome 12y ago
      I'm not sure what you're getting at.