Shanghai told businesses they should start to plan for an emergence from a citywide lockdown that would involve workers living on site and testing regularly for the coronavirus. https://t.co/dmhsSlc0mL
— The New York Times (@nytimes) April 18, 2022
Give it six months.
“We understand that lots of people can’t work from home, so to deal with rising fuel prices, we encourage workers to live at work and reduce their commutes. Companies will receive tax incentives to provide living arrangements for employees.”
The Democrats are digging every terrible economic idea out of history, why not reintroduce Company Towns.
When you live at work you won’t need a car.
You will live in your employee issued pod.
You will eat bugs
You will own nothing and be happy.
and you’ll owe your soul to the company store…
Since when do Leftists believe in souls?
Just so. I was reminded of that song a few years ago, back in Silicon Valley, as the new corporate model became clear: live in corporate housing, take the corporate bus to work, eat in the corporate cafeteria, get health care on the corporate plan, and if you lose your job you’re SOL.
(Today’s college grads are pretty much indentured servants anyway, what with all those oh-so-generous student loans. With a big debt load, one dares not venture off the plantation.)
Getting rid of the housing and bus and just having the workers sleep in their cubicles is a small step.
@RufusJ: š¼ You load 16 tons, and what do you get?
What the CCP has reinvented here isn’t exactly company towns, because when you lived in a company town you could leave after hours. The better analogy, not surprisingly, is Nazi slave labor camps. And it’s not surprising the CCP would do this because after all they have been running slave labor camps elsewhere in the country for years now. For that matter, arguably the whole country is a slave labor camp.
Thought the problems at the LA Ports was a problem?
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https://twitter.com/RodZeidan/status/1515275175528308744
The Chinese lockdowns are expanding to more cities, including where Apple’s Foxconn factory is located. I found the story here:
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/chinese-lockdowns-expand-raising-more-questions-about-beijings-motives-shutting-down
The original report is on substack here.
https://quoththeraven.substack.com/p/chinese-lockdowns-expand-raising?s=r
Not a fan. š