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Keep in mind that factory / company mine towns used to be a thing. The cyberpunk dystopia you are alluding to is extrapolating company town lifestyle into the f
by krschultz 12y ago
Keep in mind that factory / company mine towns used to be a thing. The cyberpunk dystopia you are alluding to is extrapolating company town lifestyle into the future.
- minikites 12y agoAll we need is the return of company scrip, which low-margin retailers are trying their damnedest to bring back.
- GFischer 12y agoMany countries have various types of vouchers (meal vouchers, purchase vouchers, etc..). I get paid 20% of my salary in Meal Vouchers (I hate them) by Edenred, and an extra 2% in a voucher that can only be spent on certain stores. Meal vouchers are commonly accepted because they have a 17% tax break, but retailers get 10% less than the face value (they're more expensive for them than credit cards). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_voucher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meal_voucher http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenred http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edenred
- bsaul 12y agoI don't think you can compare the two situation. Life as a miner was awfull, owners gave their employees just enough so that they could eat and have a roof. Here the contrast is much bigger. Typical cyberpunk corporate workers have a dream life, but ows total loyalty to its company to keep it.