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>They lived in Automazon houses; their babies were delivered by Automazon doctors; their children educated in Automazon schools; they bought at Automazon stores; borrowed books from Automazon libraries; married in the Automazon church; and were buried in the Automazon cemetary.

Any books about mining towns, company towns, or the old worker districts of Germany?

>> No.19069363

>>19069356
I'm pretty sure you can get some good books about the Pinkerton's involvement in Mill Towns in the United States from the early 1900s

>> No.19069367

>>19069356
better off looking towards Appalachia were my Pappy grew up. They paid them in company dollars to be spent at the company general store

>> No.19069373

>>19069356
You move sixteen tons...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RRh0QiXyZSk

>> No.19069385

>>19069356
Is this real?

>> No.19069401

>>19069385
yes

>> No.19069410

>sounds like a solution to inequality

Not really. Did Wal-Mart overtaking small towns "solve inequality"?

>> No.19069413

>>19069385
Bloomberg. Although the article itself skirts around it by saying we should just build residential districts in these areas.
That will help the property value conflicts around rich neighborhoods too! Don't want worker housing there.

>> No.19069425

>>19069363
any titles?

>> No.19069430

>>19069363
https://www.npr.org/2020/11/30/940196997/amazon-reportedly-has-pinkerton-agents-surveil-workers-who-try-to-form-unions

>> No.19069434

They're just going to flood small towns with mexicans and pajeets for cheap labor and demographic replacement.

>> No.19069442

>tfw you and your coworkers are caught discussing your salaries and now you’re homeless

>> No.19069449
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>>19069356
>Jeff Bezos watched Sorry to Bother You and thought it was a utopia
it's a shame film beat literature to the punch

>> No.19069457

>tfw told my coworker the boss is kind of cringe
>have to get whipped for 10 minutes now
>feels bad man
well to be fair it's in the contract

>> No.19069531

>go to make tea in the morning and tap won't turn on
>failure to meet picking quotas has resulted in the suspension of water privileges for the day, please report to work 1 hour early to amend your quota
>have to open a new Amazon voucher just to pay the 50p required to open my front door

You guys remember UBIK and the future economy it presented where everything cost money to run?

>> No.19069626

>>19069356
Bullish. Doubling my investment.

>> No.19069635

>>19069356
So I guess the US is literally copying the Chinese model and this iltheir foxcon

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>>19069356
>Any books about mining towns, company towns, or the old worker districts of Germany?
there are so many books out there on coal towns that you'd probably have to start by narrowing your search down to a particular region of interest. to give a rec though, Crandall Shifflett's Coal Towns from 1995 is a pretty good general overview of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Alabama.

My hometown started as a company town and I've actually been working on a small book for it recently. Have had a good time getting to know the handful of old-timers left who were actually around when it was owned by the company.

>> No.19069698

>>19069356
Brave Current World

>> No.19069714

>>19069531
>everything cost money to run
This is not your reality? I take it you live with mommy.

>> No.19069730

>>19069356
The Westray Mine in Nova Scotia is a great tale of the combined concerted effort of government and industry to provide for the people

>> No.19069742

>>19069356
Corporate statism is the next evolution.

>> No.19069748

>>19069356
It’s the Communist endgame. They want to to turn the US into China, complete with Foxconn sites.

>> No.19069752

2021: Year of the Amazon Prime

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>>19069385
yes you will live in your amazon branded pod and eat your amazon branded bugs

>> No.19069790

>>19069531
>where everything cost money to run?
Literally everything costs money.
Your doorknob analogy could be countered by saying while we don’t pay to open the front door we still pay for the door handle and that with each use the handle gets cheaper thus cheaper to open the door. The hinges too and the door itself all have a cost.
Economic factors are played out all day every day.

>> No.19069794

>>19069748
Hilarious

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There's really only one essential novel on the topic. Zola's Germinal

>> No.19069802

>>19069714
>>19069790
God, you two are obnoxious. I was clearly commenting on a shift to a full service economy, where nothing is owned and everything is rented or pay-per-use, even down to absurdities such as your own front door and the clothes you wear a la UBIK.

>> No.19069803

>>19069794
Cope, this is the natural end state of Communist ideology.

>> No.19069810

>>19069790
My door handle gets cheaper every time I use it. Amazon charges $0.50 per use - thus making it more costly with each use. Shit counter, anon. Please don't simp for the overlords, they don't need your help.

>> No.19069831

>>19069714
This place is starting to become worse than reddit.

>> No.19069856

>>19069810
Exactly, now that everything is slowly becoming a subscription saving money by taking care of your shit or being smart about what quality of things you buy is becoming a thing of the past.

>> No.19069866

>>19069810
Take the expense of the entire door system (let’s say $1000 once you factor a quality door and hardware) and then figure out how much that works out to if you open the door twice a day.
The first day the door has cost you $500 each time to open it.
At .50c to open the door you get 2000 opens before the door expense is the same as just buying the kit outright.
I don’t know about you but .50c per open seems a good deal. Just open it when you really have to go outside for work.

>> No.19069886

>>19069790
>>19069714
>now these ‘ere bucks ain’t slaves, no sir!
>why the white man must work for his bread and bed just as a- DID I TELL YOU TO TAKE A WATER BREAK?!?
> *CRACK* I’LL BLEED THE WATER OUT OF YOUR THIEVING HIDE *CRACK*
>wahwasdat? Oh the whip? Sherif’ll buffaloes anyone he catches red handed
>no sir there ain’t no difference

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>>19069866
picrel was right. People will happily choose slavery as long as it comes with economic security and forgoes the whips and chains.

>> No.19070053

>>19069449
does this mean horse tf will be real

>> No.19070323

I for one welcome our job creator overlords. I thank them for providing us with cheap material goods and incredible professional opportunities.

>> No.19070453

More like amazion ... Heh

>> No.19070466

>>19069449
Man. This movie blows fucking dick. Boring asf too.

>> No.19070500

>>19069802
You already have to pay for water (and sewage). And if you don't pay your taxes/mortgage/rent, no door either. You were never not a slave.

>> No.19070792

>>19069356
Wow we really are becoming a cyperpunk dystopia.
>Live in company town
>Buy Company Food
>Watch Company programming
>Read Company Material
>Commute with company-exclusive transports so you never have to see natural light.
>Live and die in the same company supplied habitation block.

>> No.19070797

>>19070792
its only a matter of time before we get modern day pinkertons. amazon will start hiring ex military to intimidate their wagie slaves

>> No.19070835

Too bad the American left does not present a serious challenge to this unchecked corporatocracy. Who are the “American left” anyway? They’re a bunch of crackpots, academic circlejerkers, and a few thousand social-media activists at best. They aren’t even a real socialist movement, although some may pretend to be part of one by putting an emoji in their twitter bio. The so called progressive left is largely an entirely image based "movement that relies on the naivety and gullibility of some of its adherents. I am not referring to the minority of serious labor activists of course.

>> No.19070872

>>19069790
Based and depreciation-pilled.

>> No.19070882

>>19069356
>their babies were delivered by Automazon doctors
You mean delivered by Automazon fulfillment specialists.

>> No.19070900

>>19070835
they are toothless.

>> No.19070908

>>19070500
Not the same, senpai.

>> No.19070950

>>19069356
replace Automazon with x country and nationfags will cum

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>>19069748
>It’s the Communist endgame.
The People’s Republic of Walmart
How the World’s Biggest Corporations are Laying the Foundation for Socialism
by Leigh Phillips and Michal Rozworski

Amazon literally shows how a controlled economy is suddenly and completely viable. Communism WILL occur soon

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>>19069748
>It’s the Communist endgame
>They want to to turn the US into China, complete with Foxconn sites.
>Foxconn is in Taiwan
>But anon said China
>Either implies Taiwan is part of China, or that China is ultra-capitalist; the exact opposite of communist

>> No.19071060

>>19071032
>Taiwan is part of China
Correct.

>> No.19071072

>>19069356
WHat about those hershey houses?

>> No.19071082

>>19070983
>Communism WILL occur soon
>Amazon
Communism or techno slavery?
Command Economy ≠ Communism
If Walmart or Amazon is bringing it, doubt it'll be our utopia

>> No.19071084

>>19071060
Incorrect, Taiwan has historically been China's dumping site for the last failed regime to stew and keep political dissidents from making a mess back home. The Dutch took them in when they colonized it briefly, and then became haven for the dead republic. Integrating it into China is just asking for trouble.

>> No.19071132

>>19069356
https://www.amazon.ca/Corner-Brook-social-history-paper/dp/0920911048
https://www.jstor.org/stable/43299187

>> No.19071161

>>19069356
chinabros... I'm sorry... I'll kill the birds, I'll melt the pans, please just keep your slave complexes

>> No.19071235

>>19071161
I wanted to bring back jobs from overseas, but not like this!

>> No.19071246

>>19069356
I mean....... Didnt they already do this in the 50s and stuff with big corporate pushes?

>> No.19071285

Simpsons did it

>> No.19071504

>>19069790
Retard.

>> No.19071530

>>19069356
people who think this is stupid are stupid. It makes sense.

>> No.19071545

>>19069356
Read about Wittenoom.

>> No.19071610

>>19069373
my wife's related to this guy lol

>> No.19071630

>>19071610
I fucked your wife lol

>> No.19071640

>>19071630
im anons wife lol

>> No.19071645

>>19071640
I hope anon can watch us next time lol

>> No.19071646

>>19071082
>doubt it'll be our utopia
Who said communism will be a utopia for us?

>> No.19071679

>>19071646
The leftist version of people who think fascist states are Utopias

>> No.19072930

>>19069790
>The Westray Mine in Nova Scotia
Properly made door handles and hinges can easily last 100+ years, if not 200+ years.
Even sort of shitty cast iron hinges I’ve seen gave sometimes lasted 100 years, and old cast grey iron is sort of a shitty material.
At that lifespan, the hinges likely wind up costing less than $0.01 per day in todays money(not 200 year ago currency when $0.01 was actually worth something like a large loaf of bread).

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>>19069356
Maybe read something about the Fugger family. They were the first ones to build German "worker towns" in the 15th century. Including medical and spiritual support as well as political persuasion for their workers. Kind of super early industrial magnates. Also, originally their name was written Fucker.

>> No.19073058

>>19069356
>be me
>fall in love with forklift girl
>go out on romantic date with her at the cantine during our 10 minute lunch break
>ask the manager if I can have her visit my personal space in the pod I live in
>manager tells me to get a written permit from hr
>hr gives me the permit after I sign an agreement wich states that both parties agree on having the date video taped for security purposes
>me and forklift girl hit it off
>time passes
>we decide to get married
>hr informs me that marriege and all other forms of unions are prohibited for the duration of my contract
>time passes
>forklift girl gets pregnant
>she is forced to take her sick days off to give birth to our baby
>she comes back to work next day in a remote controlled wheelchair provided by the company
>the baby is taken away to an Amazon education facility where he will learn to pack boxes and opperate forklifts
>company cuts my pay to cover for the baby's expenses
>hr informs me and forklift girl that we can see our baby 3 times a week after our shift ends

>> No.19073066

>>19069790
Based.

>> No.19073958

>>19069356
This is your brain on neoliberalism. I guarantee you /r/neoliberal is jacking off to this. These people are legitimately evil.