Musk is going to build a 15-minute neighborhood on his TX property so his employees can rent their homes from him, bike to work, buy food in his grocery stores etc. Sounds wonderful and he probably won't hire anyone who dissents on use of these attractions.
And Carnegie was all about building libraries and gymnasia and concert halls FOR his workers. But he rushed back from Scotland to stop them when they tried to unionize and have some agency for themselves
Musk is going to build a 15-minute neighborhood on his TX property so his employees can rent their homes from him, bike to work, buy food in his grocery stores etc. Sounds wonderful and he probably won't hire anyone who dissents on use of these attractions.
I'm pretty sure company towns have always been a wild success!
Fordlandia.
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9780312429621/fordlandia
16 tons and what do you get...
As Matt just delineated - too many have become satisfied with exactly that scenario; victims of a particular type of mind/soul grooming.
"St. Peter, don't you call me, 'cuz I cain't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
I thought exactly the same thing.
For the company.
I prefer, "For Frodo . . ."
Just like Henry Ford in Michigan. BTW, it didn't make us support his views on eugenics.
And Carnegie was all about building libraries and gymnasia and concert halls FOR his workers. But he rushed back from Scotland to stop them when they tried to unionize and have some agency for themselves