Paying wages that are only valid for a month, are split into parts which can only buy specific foods and goods inside a geofenced zone and can't be tranfered to any other person are much more likely.
What you're describing can only be achieved by encoding specific logic into the coin's original contract, so you'd know what you're getting yourself into ahead of time. And this is tantamount to agreeing to be paid in a specific gift card with a really small payment network. No need to get crypto or stablecoins involved.
That does not mean that you have the power to do anything about it.
Seems like you haven’t had much time with the history of company towns and company stores.
Yeah. We would know. We DO know it now. It is being tested now, exactly like described by GenshoTikamura. I've wrote you a longer comment about that below.
Do you see people protesting? I don't. Lol, even here at HN, at the bastion of independent thinking or close enough, people aren't protesting. Most it seems aren't even aware about the scope of the features of such token system, and the implications to the daily life.