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Amazon company town. Born into Amazon baby diapers, raised in Amazon communal housing, worked at the Amazon warehouse, buried in an Amazon coffin. Rents extracted at every stage of the process.

Look up 'feudal serfdom in medieval Europe' or 'company towns in the American Gilded Age' for similar projects.

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People need to stand up to the corruption and wealth inequality, or this isn't just some far off concern, it will happen. These big companies are quite happily enjoying the same scenario internationally where workers live at their factories. Don't for a second think they won't do it here.

This should be upvoted more - this is the natural destination where all of this leads.

With growing wealth inequality - people will have less and less..

We are on the fast track to a revolution.

What will end up happening is the metaverse will become the new "bread and circuses" of the plutocracy

As long as the bread and circus is there the people will grow fat and happy.

Soon it will be "I metaverse therefore I am?"

Nothing can be worse than the London private rental market

If you don’t want people to pay rent then you reject the concept of a societal meta-organism. The only problem with that is that another country will lean into the meta organism concept and become much stronger than everyone who doesn’t. Which will result in the economic or military destruction of those people.

Rent extractors are always full of shit, but "pay rent or you will be destroyed by a foreign meta-organism" is a new one.

I think you're exaggerating a lot here. Is this some dystopian short story?

read this

https://www.pbs.org/tpt/slavery-by-another-name/themes/compa...

https://www.history.com/news/americas-largest-labor-uprising...

I'm fully aware of such history. I'm asking if you think Amazon is doing this right now? Any sources?

Or a Springsteen song?

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