• jjagaimo@lemmy.caEnglish
      27·
      1 day ago

      Companies in the late 1800s to early/mid 1900s would build towns and housing around the mines and pay workers in “credit” only redeemable at the company store for necessary goods, food, etc. Due to the high prices and single company monopoly over all aspects of life there, people would go into debt and be essentially locked in with fences like prisoners and forced to work off the debt.

      • mnemonicmonkeysEnglish
        7·
        16 hours ago

        I think they were just making a joke about the wording of the OOP.

        That being said, the background info is probably good for other people seeing this

  • KecessaEnglish
    24·
    1 day ago

    Thanks for the text OP, I couldn’t read all of that