• Chariotwheel
    14•9 months ago

    I mean, we have some clear aspects of what was feared. I think the closest country currently is South Korea, given how powerful the corporations are there.

    It goes to the point where the main thing young people work towards is the Samsung Aptitude Test, there are whole cities that basically just belong to Samsung. From the factory to the supermarkets where the factory workers shop to the flats the workers live in and spend their time off using Samsung devices.

    • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      12•9 months ago

      So company towns that haven’t started issuing scrip yet. My country tried that for a while. It ended in literal class warfare.

        • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          14•9 months ago

          United States. Look into Appalachian coal miner union history. The company towns were part of the story but not the whole of the exploitation of the workers. The Battle of Blair Mountain is the most famous incident. Also the music involved fucking slaps.

            • @captainlezbian@lemmy.world
              3•9 months ago

              Yeah that makes sense. They were absolutely kept in economic bondage, with brutal treatment. And when they resisted tensions escalated. They matched to unionize and the bosses brought in mercenaries. Gunfire was exchanged, and at times machine guns were mounted to trains or nested in mountains to stop strikers. Teenagers charged them.

              It’s worth learning more. If for no other reason than because Appalachia is a special part of the country that’s often misunderstood and it helps put their distrust of outsiders into context