#Slavery #CompanyTowns and making #Commoners #Fight #Amongst #Ourselves #JustToGetBy and so many of us aren’t #GettingBy #Anymore

This country fought against having company towns where the billionaires enslaved the people. Has anyone heard the song, “16 Tons”?

“You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt”—by Tennessee Ernie Ford.

#Pinks #ProudBlue #CompanyTowns

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Life Inside a Town Owned by One Company | Peter Santenello

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#CompanyTowns #Morenci #AZ #copper #mining

Their goal is 21st Century #CompanyTowns which they euphemistically call #FreedomCities

& built #CompanyTowns where the Rent for Housing & costs where they could keep a tab to Shop for needed Foods & Goods were obscenely Expensive. Their workers lived & died in Debt. The Owners were Despised by their Workers & the Old Generational Wealthy. The Roosevelt Presidents & First Lady Eleanor

A couple of frames from the illustrated explainer showing workers were basically slave labor in company towns.

@Nonilex

Here is a great illustrated explainer (comic strip) about company towns and how evil they were:
https://thenib.com/company-towns-history/

It uses the lyrics to the song, "Sixteen Tons" as a frame for the information presented.

#History #USA #US […]

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Elon Musk and the Rebirth of Company Towns feat. Steven Monacelli & Dr. Michael Phillips (37min)
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Yes. This is the #TechBro version of #CompanyTowns

This #shittyidea was about as good as a #wetfart last #century. #Basically this is a return to #companytowns. #People have no #rights and #company #thugs are #rampant. See how #successful the idea was last time? #Learn from #history. Don’t #fall for their #shit. 👇

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This #shittyidea was about as good as a #wetfart last #century. #Basically this is a return to #companytowns. #People have no #rights and #company #thugs are #rampant. See how #successful the idea was last time? #Learn from #history. Don’t #fall for their #shit. 👇

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#GeoGroup and #CoreCivic are #ConcentrationCamps designed to #Profit over #Slavery We already have #CompanyTowns and are well on our way to #CurtisYarvin type #Feudalism by #TechBros

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Remote Wyoming vacation lodge emerges as haven for US ‘dissident’ right Wagon Box Inn, founded by Paul McNiel, attracts figures with ambitions to push politics and culture rightwards

Excellent and important investigative reporting by @jasonaw.bsky.social and @awinston.bsky.social on the #DissidentRight and #NetworkState proponents who wet-dream about thousands of small #CompanyTowns replacing nation states.
#FarRight
#Techno-Feudalism

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Weird thought that's been sitting in the drafts TikTok video by Ponyboy

Billionaires and corporations are definitely trying to start up company towns again. 😮‍💨 ☠️ #parableofsower #battleofblairmountain #project2025 #feudalism #companytowns

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What are 'freedom cities'? Billionaire CEOs' plan could reshape America A coalition of "startup nations" have met with the Trump administration in order to create areas of the U.S. free from regulation.

"In March 2023, he called for the redistribution of federal land for 10 new urban areas, saying: "Our objective will be a quantum leap in the American standard of living." #FreedomCities #CompanyTowns
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Trump’s “Freedom Cities” Are a Devious Scam The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh coat of modern cryptofascist varnish.

Hah! Somebody else is catching on to #CompanyTowns:

"Trump’s “ #FreedomCities” Are a Devious Scam
The president and his Silicon Valley oligarch pals want to bring back the bad old “company towns” of yesteryear with a fresh coat of modern cryptofascist varnish."
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America’s Company Towns, Then and Now A look at these small towns across the United States shows the good, the bad and the ugly of the industrial boom

America’s Company Towns, Then and Now

"to speak about company towns in the past tense is to overlook that they still exist. " #CompanyTowns #FreedomCities

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Step back in time to an era when your paycheck, home, and groceries all came from the same company—and being fired meant losing everything overnight. #CompanyTowns #FreedomCities
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Company town - Wikipedia

What you're describing sounds an awful like something they've tried in the past:

#CompanyTowns #Paternalism

Again. The past might be the future
#companytowns #Anarchocapitalism
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The Modern Robber Baron: Elon Musk Elon Musk’s proposed company towns, like Snailbrook and Starbase, risk exploiting workers similarly to Gilded Age towns, controlling their lives under the guise of innovation and sustainabili…

Elon Musk's company towns; progress or a return to the Gilded Age? Explore the echoes of the Ludlow Massacre in Snailbrook and Starbase. History warns us: unchecked corporate control comes at a price.

#ElonMusk #LaborRights #CompanyTowns

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