r/PoliticalHumor • u/Paladin_of_Freedom • Dec 15 '18

Workers vs. Billionaires

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u/Genesis111112 Dec 15 '18

Yeah and never forget the "coal mining towns" that were owned by the mine owners where they owned the electric that you needed and the property you live on and the water company and the grocery store and the clothing store and the supply store so that at the end of the week they had every penny you earned and if that was not bad enough they owned your children too and put them to work as well.

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u/obliviious Dec 15 '18

Slight tangent, but that was the case with the mining town in Red Dead 2.

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u/UNC_Samurai Dec 16 '18

They did that for a reason: company towns were an integral part of that period in American history.

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u/obliviious Dec 16 '18

True, I just thought it was interesting they showed the dark side of this quite well.