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I bet Tim Cook and Xi were watching it over zoom and making bets on who'd survive and make the most iPhones at the same time to get a scrap of raw, maggot infested meat dropped into the warehouse.

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While they were jerking each other off the whole time.

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Without taking anything from Poalers, I was impressed with the Zero Hedge comment section of the referenced article.

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Seems like an easy fix. $100,000,000 of those profits could feed all of the Foxconn employees and their families for years.

Even better, they could relocate their facilities to the USA and let welfare (tax dollars) pay for those employees' food.

What I do not understand is why we haven't created corporate villages, yet. Where the corporation pays for their housing, healthcare, food, education, etc. And they go to work. Like a corporate dystopia. They would spend most of their earnings in the villages, anyway.

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>why we haven't created corporate villages, yet...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town#History

History Paternalism Company town Burg in Bayreuth, Germany Main article: Welfare capitalism

Paternalism, a subtle form of social engineering, refers to the control of workers by their employers who sought to force middle-class ideals upon their working-class employees. Paternalism was considered by many nineteenth-century businessmen as a moral responsibility, or often a religious obligation, which would advance society whilst furthering their own business interests. Accordingly, the company town offered a unique opportunity to achieve such ends.

Although many prominent examples of company towns portray their founders as "capitalists with a conscience", for example, George Cadbury's Bournville, if viewed cynically, the company town was often an economically viable ploy to attract and retain workers. Additionally, for-profit shops within company towns were usually owned by the company, which were unavoidable to its isolated workers, thus resulting in a monopoly for the owners.[2]

Although economically successful, company towns sometimes failed politically due to a lack of elected officials and municipally owned services.[3] Accordingly, workers often had no say in local affairs, and therefore felt dictated to. Ultimately, this political climate caused resentment amongst workers and resulted in many residents eventually losing long-term affection for their towns; such was the case at Pullman...

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Oh, I forgot to mention: thanks for sharing. Always a pleasure to learn something new from you.

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Sounds like the examples of companies doing this got too greedy and fucked it up. Turned the capitalism up past the limit and it started to dip into the cronyism portion.

Basically...it's supposed to be a modern plantation except you "pay" them.

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Hey, corporate villages worked out for the Kentucky coal miners (not really) back during the 1800’s.