Comment on What will happen to large companies once poor people have no more money to use?
peto@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I suspect they will graciously provide the necessities in return for your labour and any remaining rights you have.
Take a look at how company stores and scrip worked. As the song goes, Saint Peter don’t call me 'cause I can’t go/Sold my soul to the company store.
Lemmeenym@lemm.ee 2 months ago
The lyric is “I owe my soul to the company store”. Sold requires a conscious choice, willingly entering into the agreement. Under a company script system children are forced into labor as early as possible to help pay the family debt. In less than a generation teenagers are given the “choice” to go to work or see their families already meager income reduced to cover “their portion” of the family debt.
peto@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I stand corrected.