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GraniteGeekNH OP t1_ja7xkjm wrote

Reply to comment by smartest_kobold in That 44-unit tiny home development, built by employer who can't keep staff by GraniteGeekNH

Read the story, it has details.

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TheTowerBard t1_ja84t6n wrote

I read it, it’s a company town with a twist:

“The project, a modern twist on the old model of companies building housing for workers…”

This is not the solution our society needs.

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simonhunterhawk t1_ja8dodt wrote

Back when company towns were huge, they’d send someone to tell a man’s wife he’d died in the mines/factory/etc and they either needed to provide another worker (boy older than 10) or move within 7 days. If the child couldn’t be as productive as his father was, he’d get only half his dad’s wages so they’d still be fucked.

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RickyDaytonaJr t1_ja8inqr wrote

You load 16 tons and 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.

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the_nobodys t1_ja8enlj wrote

I agree, I think that will happen in Dover. I'd hate to be that little boy earning half of daddy's Dover Delite pay, but whatayagonnado? Someone has to scoop, I mean mine those ice cream tubs.

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simonhunterhawk t1_ja8ff2t wrote

I mean laws are different now so realistically they’d probably just evict a family but even then for some low income people that could mean homelessness if they can’t find different housing, and most families are dual income these days anyways. But I just feel like it’s important to remember why company towns went away in the first place.

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IntelligentMeal40 t1_ja9takx wrote

What do you mean the laws are different now? Just last year New Hampshire made it so that 15 and 16-year-olds can work 32 hours a week. You haven’t seen the signs for McDonald’s help wanted giving different wages for different ages?

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simonhunterhawk t1_ja9twxb wrote

I didn’t know that, I’m a fairly recent import from FL, but they had really lax child labor laws there too. When I was a minor my managers at two different companies regularly broke break schedule laws even though I would remind them I had to take an unpaid break every 4 hours, I’d hit overtime and work overnights at one job because I didn’t have a traditional school schedule and could work different hours. At 16/17 years old. But it’s a little different than 10 year olds hitting the mines, hopefully it never goes to that again at least.

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mamercus-sargeras t1_ja8dsgc wrote

"I spent 5 minutes reading about something being bad in college, so therefore a solution to an urgent problem that reminds me of that is also bad."

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TheTowerBard t1_ja8gjdg wrote

This problem hasn’t been urgent forever, and those of us that paid attention in school and took in these lessons from history, have been trying to get all the brainwashed corporate bootlickers of our society to get their collective heads out of their collective asses for the last 40 years. And now that it IS urgent, you idiots still want to lick boots instead of listen to the people whose concerns are continually proven right? This is why we can’t have nice things.

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the_nobodys t1_ja8iy0k wrote

You just sound like a contrarion. What about new, relatively dense housing development is bad for society exactly?

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