Talk about moving the goalposts.

Fun fact, large industrial companies used to do this kind of shit a lot to keep their employees in debt in perpetuity and got away with it.

HedgeLord said:

Talk about moving the goalposts.

Fun fact, large industrial companies used to do this kind of shit a lot to keep their employees in debt in perpetuity and got away with it.

Wait, all the bullshit in that game, Hardpoint Shipbreaker, it used to be true?

FRien said:

Wait, all the bullshit in that game, Hardpoint Shipbreaker, it used to be true?

If I'm not mistaken, it still happens in developing countries where manufacturing plants pay their workers a miserable salary and financially penalize them for the slightest mistake. Specific example I've read about (in the early 2000s, so I'm not sure if it's up to date but it's still recent history): carpet-weaving plants in India that employed children for 1 rupee a day and fined 200 rupees to anyone who accidentally broke a thread (which happened a lot).

Even in North America, there was some massive abuse going on, most famously "company towns", essentially housing complexes with access to all basic stuff like food stores and the like, all built and managed by a company and advertised as a convenient way for workers to live close to their job, but workers would only be payed in some worthless "company credit" currency made up by the company and usable nowhere else but in the company town where their employer could raise and lower prices as they saw fit, instead of dollars. It stopped after massive worker revolts.

All this because Enadori schemed to pretty much enslave his "Friend" because Enadori's such a toxic ass and no one wants to play with him due to his obsession with a stupid badge that exists to show off. There's a special place in hell for people like that Enadori.

HedgeLord said:

If I'm not mistaken, it still happens in developing countries where manufacturing plants pay their workers a miserable salary and financially penalize them for the slightest mistake. Specific example I've read about (in the early 2000s, so I'm not sure if it's up to date but it's still recent history): carpet-weaving plants in India that employed children for 1 rupee a day and fined 200 rupees to anyone who accidentally broke a thread (which happened a lot).

Even in North America, there was some massive abuse going on, most famously "company towns", essentially housing complexes with access to all basic stuff like food stores and the like, all built and managed by a company and advertised as a convenient way for workers to live close to their job, but workers would only be payed in some worthless "company credit" currency made up by the company and usable nowhere else but in the company town where their employer could raise and lower prices as they saw fit, instead of dollars. It stopped after massive worker revolts.

Fucking hell. I'll have to read about these "massive worker revolts", it sounds like good fun. Nothing like hard karma and people getting beaten to death with a pickaxe to make me smile.

HedgeLord said:

If I'm not mistaken, it still happens in developing countries where manufacturing plants pay their workers a miserable salary and financially penalize them for the slightest mistake. Specific example I've read about (in the early 2000s, so I'm not sure if it's up to date but it's still recent history): carpet-weaving plants in India that employed children for 1 rupee a day and fined 200 rupees to anyone who accidentally broke a thread (which happened a lot).

Even in North America, there was some massive abuse going on, most famously "company towns", essentially housing complexes with access to all basic stuff like food stores and the like, all built and managed by a company and advertised as a convenient way for workers to live close to their job, but workers would only be payed in some worthless "company credit" currency made up by the company and usable nowhere else but in the company town where their employer could raise and lower prices as they saw fit, instead of dollars. It stopped after massive worker revolts.

Not only in North America. It was a common practice in my country during the period were the saltpeter was the main income for my country. The infamous "pulperías" which used their own chips or tokens.