Gizmodo: Coming Soon, From the People Behind ICE Detention Camps: Data Center Company Towns. “Painting a picture straight out of a Taylor Sheridan series, the Bloomberg piece details the rise of the ‘man camps’ built to facilitate the construction of data centers. Amenity-filled pop-up villages in remote areas used to serve as a carrot for oil industry contractors. The model has since expanded […]
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Here is a great illustrated explainer (comic strip) about company towns and how evil they were:
https://thenib.com/company-towns-history/It uses the lyrics to the song, "Sixteen Tons" as a frame for the information presented.
#History #USA #US #CompanyTowns #Business #Labor #LaborDay #Comics #ComicStrip
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Excellent and important investigative reporting by @jasonaw.bsky.social and @awinston.bsky.social on the #DissidentRight and #NetworkState proponents who wet-dream about thousands of small #CompanyTowns replacing nation states. #FarRight #Techno-Feudalism www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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@paul_ipv6 @Laukidh @ai6yr I thought Hershey PA was fairly successful. Except maybe for the rebellion.
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Next episode of AHIMH is out: "What Are Company Towns?"
Youtube:
https://youtu.be/hd8td0wd648Podcast:
https://spotifyanchor-web.app.link/e/hf3l36VXcObWordpress:
https://harrisees.wordpress.com/2024/11/02/what-are-company-towns/#capitalism #USA #corporategreed #unions #strike #companytowns
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It's a far cry from a colony on #Mars, but I guess you have to start somewhere.
https://elonsucks.org/@worldnews/109996593642656506
What frustrates me about our adulation of these #billionaires is that we treat their ideas as new and innovative without any critical thought. #CompanyTowns have been used to #oppress workers for centuries.
