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I was gonna say, didn't this lead to exploitation and almost slave-labor before?

I mean with some strong regulation things might be different, but with the political landscape as it is I don't think it would work out.

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The Netherlands has several 'Company neighbourhoods', I was raised in one. They were typically built before the second world war and they were actually meant to 'enable the working class'. Build quality was good and had quite some space for the time. Layout of the neighbourhood was not dense but left spaces open for nature and play.

Facilities included schools, sports accomodation etc. PSV, a dutch premier league football team is a project of Phillips the former electronics giant. PSV -> Phillips Sport Vereniging.

And Phillips built neighbourhoods, schools and public swimming pools too.

Ah well ... sigh ( I was not raised in a Phillips neighbourhood btw ).

Not always. For example the village built up by the Cadbury family in Bournville was designed to favour the wellbeing and living standards of their workers: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bournville

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