• @[email protected]
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    381 year ago

    that’s why that abomination of a “community” being built by musk is a dystopian nightmare

      • @RedCowboy
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        1 year ago

        Elon wants to build a city from scratch in Texas, basically a Tesla company town. He’s reportedly purchased 6,000 acres 35 miles from Austin and already there’s a factory and some cheap housing plopped down in “Snailbrook, TX”

        edit for additional context, the land is in Bastrop county, which is between Austin and Houston (but much closer to Austin). I35 from San Antonio to Austin to Dallas is quickly becoming one giant strip of consumerism, and Austin to Houston will eventually go the same way. He’s getting rural land just outside booming Austin and 1.5 hours from Katy in the Houston metroplex. Unfortunately it looks like an amazing business move

  • NessD
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    231 year ago

    I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said, “Well, a-bless my soul”

    You load 16 tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt St. Peter, don’t you call me 'cause I can’t go I owe my soul to the company store.

    • @warling
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      31 year ago

      First thing I thought of too.

  • IHeartBadCode
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    101 year ago

    29 USC § 203 (m)(1) authorizes 29 CFR § 531.34. The current rule making from the Secretary of Labor (q) is as:

    Scrip, tokens, credit cards, “dope checks,” coupons, and similar devices are not proper mediums of payment under the Act.

    This all is found in the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, public law Pub. L. 75-718

  • @FollyDolly
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    81 year ago

    Oh it’s even better. Look up the battle of Blair Mountain. Where the US government dropped bombs on protesting coal miners, whose only crime was wanting to be paid in real currency.

  • @Mobilityfuture
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    31 year ago

    Have you seen what the federal reserve is doing with interest rates to slow growth and raise unemployment?