Should state governments allow company towns?
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Companies allowed to create their own towns and impose their own laws, in turn becoming a local government? Gross.
It's kind of already happened with Scientology: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2...-buys-most-of-downtown-clearwater-florida.cnn
Disney did it, too: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2...-buys-most-of-downtown-clearwater-florida.cnn
It's kind of already happened with Scientology: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2...-buys-most-of-downtown-clearwater-florida.cnn
Disney did it, too: https://edition.cnn.com/videos/tv/2...-buys-most-of-downtown-clearwater-florida.cnn
They had Scientology adds during the Superbowl.
We had company towns back in the old days.
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Years ago I visited an area with a (lord) humongous factory. It even had its own bus shuttle system to get workers around. Basically its own ecosystem.
I recently audiobooked (free on librivox) King Coal by Upton Sinclair. It details (fictionalized, sensationalized) accounts of company mining towns of the early 20th century.
Corporations are people
people are towns
people are towns
I'm less concerned with company towns domestically than the ones US conglomerates have set up in the third world.
That’s a good point. But when it comes to those, the big question is whether the people running those companies are breaking the law in those countries.
For company towns in the US, I worry that employees have a distinct lack of bargaining power, compromised rights as employees vs private citizens, restricted access for other Americans without state oversight, and more. I’m not saying umbrella hives, but just that we created governments to protect the rights of the people, and Nevada has made a declaration that it doesn’t care.
Nevada should be dechartered, and everyone in NV, everyone, should be removed by force. The entire state can then be entered into the national park list.
I heard a laughable interview from a Republican strategist on NPR.
She was basically saying that members of the party needed to stand up to Trump and his supporters including current members of Congress who are alleged to have participated in the Capitol Riot and/or spread the “Stop the Steal” lie.
That’s all well and good but then said that Corporations needed to immediately cease donating money to candidates and groups who supported those lies.
That was fine too, however, she described it as Corporations needing to show some “Moral Leadership” on the issue and continued to use that phrase.
LOL.
Corporate Moral Leadership?
The idea that any for-profit corporation can be a moral leader on any issue is laughable. I’d be extremely skeptical of any major corporation who even claimed to be such a thing.
She was basically saying that members of the party needed to stand up to Trump and his supporters including current members of Congress who are alleged to have participated in the Capitol Riot and/or spread the “Stop the Steal” lie.
That’s all well and good but then said that Corporations needed to immediately cease donating money to candidates and groups who supported those lies.
That was fine too, however, she described it as Corporations needing to show some “Moral Leadership” on the issue and continued to use that phrase.
LOL.
Corporate Moral Leadership?
The idea that any for-profit corporation can be a moral leader on any issue is laughable. I’d be extremely skeptical of any major corporation who even claimed to be such a thing.
If you take away the mandate that a company must operate within the DOL rules, they will completely ignore minimum wage, hours, safety, and anti discrimination. We saw it in North Carolina. We see it with Hobby Lobby.
BerryTogart
Bolt Thrower.,
All the years I invested in the Shadowrun RPG will finally pay off.
RE: Hobby Lobby
On the other hand those corporations wouldn’t have to return the Christian artifacts they rescued from the heathen idol worshippers.
On the other hand those corporations wouldn’t have to return the Christian artifacts they rescued from the heathen idol worshippers.
We've already seen dozens of attempts at it on social media the past few years.LOL.
Corporate Moral Leadership?
The idea that any for-profit corporation can be a moral leader on any issue is laughable. I’d be extremely skeptical of any major corporation who even claimed to be such a thing.
oliverclaude
General Morden's Aide
Yeah, the list is quite long, it seems like a rehashed concept, only this time it's wired with optical fiber cables to bring "groundbreaking technologies" into focus. In Germany there are Leverkusen (Bayer) and Wolfsburg (Volkswagen).