• ramble81@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    That was tried back in the early 1900s with the concept of a “company town”. The bad side of that is they ended up keeping your money as they owned the stores and the houses, so it basically became indentured servitude. Even worse, when you lost your job you immediately lost your housing.