this post was submitted on 02 Jan 2024
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A Boring Dystopia

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[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It really depends on how the rest of their society looks. Think about mining towns, with miners paid in tokens, and spent entirely at the company store.

[โ€“] Holyhandgrenade 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah company towns were a thing 100 years ago and they were terrible and corporations desperately want to bring them back