like I went to taco bell and they didn’t even have napkins out. they had the other stuff just no napkins, I assume because some fucking ghoul noticed people liked taking them for their cars so now we just don’t get napkins! so they can save $100 per quarter rather than provide the barest minimum quality of life features.

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    You load 16 tons, what do you get?

    Another day older and deeper in debt

    St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go

    I owe my soul to the company store

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      Much as I love that song, it doesn’t really apply to the OP question, which is more about companies exploiting their customers rather than their workers.

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          And it seems that “our corporate masters” don’t understand that underpaid or laid off people don’t have the purchasing power to buy more stuff.

          In their relentless pursuit of profits, they are killing off the ability of people to be customers.

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        the song was about company towns where the laborers were paid in store credit instead of wages. you’d work, but never pay off debts, since it all went back to the companies who set the prices for everything you buy, and so they were able to keep you on a tight leash.

        That’s how it feels like things are going now. a few companies own everything, pay our wages, and set our prices. we cannot get ahead.