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A modern company town? Will our paychecks be paid in digital scrip as well?
Sooooome people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons, whaddya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go!
I owe my soul to the company store.
A propietary cripto coin even.
Maybe they will call it "Scripto Coin"
You can choose to be paid in USD or Town Tokens, but all the shops only take Tokens. And you get a 1.5% bonus for choosing to be paid in Tokens, so why wouldn't you?
Because shops charge 30x the price than shopping off company land.
Is this real?
No, it's illegal to do that in the US.
They'll get that changed soon enough.
Look up 'the company store.' Especially in mining towns, the company would pay workers in scrip that could only be redeemed at a grocery store the company owned.
Fordlandia? Rapture? Jonestown?
EDIT: Lang's Metropolis? Tezuka's Metropolis? Gillette's Metropolis?
I didn't see anything about how you become a resident of this town. I bet you have to tie your mortgage to your job and agree to 100% surveillance so they can verify your productivity.
Oh hell yeah I'm ready for the poor man's plot of Bioshock to play out in real time.
Good luck on your ‘real-estate disaster of tomorrow’!
Can we just build skyscrapers, and stack all the Republicans there?
This way things will actually happen in government.
All I hear is Redneck artillery range and car bomb testing site.
I should not be allowed near this monument to corporate greed.
this post was submitted on 08 Nov 2023
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