• SatansMaggotyCumFart
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    06 months ago

    Companies with company town usually paid their employees with a company issued money that was only good at the company stores.

    They usually sold with inflated prices.

    This isn’t pure capitalism.

    • @[email protected]
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      86 months ago

      What makes you think unregulated capitalism won’t result in these monopolies?

      And the Sturlungs?

      • SatansMaggotyCumFart
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        16 months ago

        I read the article and it didn’t really explain how a forty-four year period in Iceland in 1220 has anything to do with this conversation.