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Capitalism doesn't have a conscience. Enjoy my click, but I downvoted, and am clicking off the video as we speak. Grow some conscience of your own.
Never understood why these companies fought so hard against communists. The very idea of a company town is an incredibly communistic idea. A centralized body that provides your job, your housing, your groceries, your education, and even your entertainment. The higher you rise with the hierarchy of this centralized body, the better your are treated, and the better your life. Since this centralized body control every aspect of your life, they are incredibly paranoid and often go to extremes to root out any dissent. I mean hell, that is the playbook of the Soviet Union, the only difference is it is a corporation controlling everything instead of the government.
Today companies, in cooperation with enormous governments, have gotten smarter in the implementation of the "company town, company store" system…Their solution? Get rid of the walls, make it a "Company World" And that's exactly what's happening right this moment. The World Economic Forum, International banking and finance, the governments of the US, the UK, the EU and most importantly, Israel, are all working together to create a permanent slave class of raceless, property-less, faithless worker bees with no privacy, no rights, not even the right to their own bodies…
My dad’s company still had a company store in the 80s and 90s. Many times we were able to eat because of the company store helping out. It was always wonderful for us.
Geoff Castellucci does an amazing A Cappella version of 16 Tons.
Pullman Town. A future video perhaps?
With the removal of the gold standard you're all slaves. You happily get your scrip in the form of dollars.
The way he pronounced “st Peter” instead of saint peter 💀
We've gone from a society that wanted to work hard for a living, even if under the crappy conditions of company towns to a society that wants to hide in their "safe places" and collect a free check.
Though it's not quite the same, many military bases in the US (and I'm sure elsewhere) share a lot of parallels to this day
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We had one of those in Norway too; Longyearbyen in the far north. Coal mining town with its own currency and all
Ah the white Russians
0:14 ok now I know why Weedeaters second album is called Sixteen Tons. Well I'm fairly certain of it now.
My mother was born in a company town. Remerton, Georgia, USA, formerly "Milltown". It was a cotton mill town. She was always avoiding revealing that part of her life. Both of my grandparents were "mill folk", and my grandmother was in textiles for the rest of her life. My grandfather couldn't work as much and eventually not at all because of his disability post WWII. They, my grandparents, were able to work their way out, buy land and build a house. There weren't any fences except around the mill for safety reasons as much as anything. The town is now 90%+ college students, only the chimney at the mill is standing, and the old company houses are artsy fartsy decor stores, bars and antique shops. It wasn't like your example, but it was definitely the wrong side of the tracks.
I like how the whole concept of company towns is basically a mini communist country. Yet they claimed they were so afraid of communism in these towns. Good thing capitalism and a democratic republic beat out these communist company towns. Scary that people want to bring them back.
Company towns? Sweetheart we live in Company America. They didn't go away. They evolved.
Sounds like the hunger games
The company I work for was a company town back in the day. Today we're employee owned. It's a relief to know that, sometimes, things do change for the better 🙂
Whenever I see people ask what "company town" means, I just ask if they've ever seen October Sky. The town being owned by the coal company and the effects of it were major parts of the story.
See the Quakers, Cadbury built a wonderful town of Bourneville near Liverpool England, so lovely people still want to live there, except there's no pub.
Geoff Castellucci's recent cover of 16 Tons is the best one I've ever heard! His voice really adds to the feelings portrayed by the song.
Travis. Not Taylor
Simon, you really have a lovely story telling voice.
My family was coal miners in Ohio and West Virginia, England before that. It’s history worth telling
Not bring paid in cash says it all.
Capitalism with a conscience has the initial price of .99 cent to the dollar plus taxes.
There's even more good news, company towns are making a return. Weigh your soul for however much it's worth.
Anything that seeks to "civilize" any group of people is no utopia. And it is additionally scary that modern day companies are trying to revive this concept (like Amazon).
Take a look at the saltpeter mines in Chile.
Examples wouldve been great
Yeah, we should have all that , just without working. That's why we need more government.
“…Money, greed, and a complete disregard for human dignity supersedes all.” (13:37) that is still happening today all around us from every corporation due to capitalism. Profits>people always will be the case in a capitalist society. Corporations by definition only goal is to make as much money as possible even when that means cutting corners, using slave/child labor/underpaid labor, populating the environment, putting harmful chemicals in their products/the environment, etc.
The company towns I think of are Hershey, PA n Los Alamos while building the bomb.
The sad part is that the business model and actions of the company towns reminds me exactly of my crooked ass union lol