• @militaryintelligence
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    211 year ago

    We could go back to company scrip and children in the mines. That’s where unregulation would take us

    • @MiddleWeigh
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      1 year ago

      Scrip is kinda low key a thing again. My SO works for wawa and there is definitely some scrip vibe. They have a company store, a points reward system, they will put you through school if you take classes that benefit the Corp, and the only way to move up is to basically bootlick management at weird company festivals.

      It all has this very dystopian vibe of “everything within the corporation eco system” and my SO is a very principled women who is shy and kind and she refuses to take a step to elevate herself within the Corp, but getting a union going is pretty hard where we’re at, everyone is very much of the boot tasting, welfare queen bad variety.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      True deregulation would result in a form of psuedoregulation eventually.

      Companies would abuse people and behave unethically. Workers would get angry. Eventually workers would organize and employers would have to follow worker demands to be able to continue operations.