You’re living in a townhouse as part of an apartment complex. The apartment complex has benefits such as a pool and hot tub, indoor gym, full size basketball court, a library, and a garden. You have 2 other roommate/coworkers, and you have 6 neighbor/coworkers. A Labor neutrality agreement is guaranteed, and both tenant unions and labor unions will be voluntarily recognized.
This is what we call a company town. Soon you won’t get real money, just monopoly money you can only use at the company store. No thanks.
I know that’s not exactly what you’re scenario is saying but, feels too slippery of a slope for me personally.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.
It is one step back into this. It’s something we fight and died over in the past as workers only for these people to bring it back up again as a perk.
We learned this in school so I’m assuming the younger gens aren’t learning any history at all unless it’s a lie “Trump fought wwii single handedly!”
I was gonna say, this sounds like a company town. I’ve seen some videos on company towns and they’re fairly glamorous tbh, I forget the drawbacks, I’m sure it has its drawbacks.
What about being fully enslaved to a fucking corp seems glamorous?!
Like the living conditions I saw were pretty good. From housing to the gym they had and everything
In old school mining company towns the drawback was that they didn’t pay you in real money. They paid you in essentially monopoly money. The currency they gave you was only usable at places owned by the company. The issue becomes, you don’t like your job and want to leave? You have no money. You can’t leave.
I have more details in other threads, but it’s distinct from a company town in that the job is paid by the government, the housing is provided independently of the job, and the housing is controlled by the people who live there
How do you save money to leave if you want to? That’s where the difference will be and at $15 an hour… you’re never leaving.
If that were the case then why would your roommates and neighbors be fellow employees? Also how would the government afford said housing if they’re also subsidizing the company you work for to allow them to be competitive for employees while only paying $15/hr?
Your scenario sounds like it at least has checks and balances which is the only way this could work without employees getting screwed.