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Trying to imagine the freedom one feels when working in a corporate that owns the town one lives in.

Schools, clinics, police, and other community aspects are all controlled by the same entity.

This is not communism per se, but perhaps even worse in some aspects.

Feels like a ginat kibbutz (1) to me. And all was done in the name of capitalism and the free world.

1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibbutz

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Fascism (1), actually.

1. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qdY_IMZH2Ko&t=320

Company towns had their problems, paying workers in company scrip for example to buy necessities at the company store (a practice which has been outlawed) among other things, but conceptually they were more like planned developments intended to house enough workers and support staff to engage in whatever land-based enterprise the company was engaged in, where previously there wasn’t a town to house them all before.

They’re a bit outmoded now, since with the advent of modern transportation technology it’s usually possible to get enough people to live in or work from some nearby community that you don’t need to build a whole bloody town yourself. Also logging and mining aren’t quite the growth industries they used to be in the US.

Speaking of kibbutz’s though, if you want a rabbit hole to fall into, there’s all kinds of intentional communities out there. Probably most famously Amish communities, but there’s all kinds.

They want to return to a sort of corporate scrip; Central Bank Digital Currency on a national level.

It gives you a whole new dimension of pain if you are laid off.

It's the opposite of communism. Under communism, the workers own the means of production and all the other assets (at least, that's the theory; reality doesn't quite work out that way!). In a company town, a company owns it all; the workers own nothing.

Imagine the power the company has over individuals.

> done in the name of ... the free world.

Where are company towns described as being done 'in the name of' the free world?

In the cold war environment the term "free world" was linked inextricably to capitalism. This had great benefits to US living standards in the first few decades (as the US could utilise global resources more than other countries, just taking them with trinkets rather than guns like in colonial time), but as other countries caught up US standards of living started to plateau, and power concentrated on smaller and smaller parts, this time cannibalising US citizens still maintaining it was the "free world"

Capitalism is the exploitation of men by men. Communism is the exact opposite.

Quite sure there was plenty of exploitation in communist countries.

GP is a variation of a JKG quote:

<https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2006/05/john-ke...>

Would you say it could be described as exploitation of men by men?

I think that’s supposed to be the joke.

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