@Austin_Dern @mansr It's a bit odd though, that they live at work. Even raise kids and stuff. I don't think anyone on board isn't part of the crew or family of the crew, though. Military style heirarchy, too, and they keep turning the self destruct on and off again.
I wondered for a while, why Wal-mart didn't build apartments for their employees on top of their stores, but I figured it out. Yeah that'd be bad.
I wonder how they decide who gets beach-front property in Star Trek's universe.
@relee @Austin_Dern Company towns existed in the past. Some may still exist today. Where a company builds an entire town to support its workers
there are. Several problems with the whole idea
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Traditionally company housing is used only to oppress the workers and give the employer another way to drive out any attempts at unionization. (with the possible exception of being an onsite super, which is more of a mixed bag)
@001zlnv @Felthry @Austin_Dern Yeah, in the years since I first wondered about why Wal-mart didn't build apartments on top of their stores, I've come to realize and understand that our systems of currency and land ownership primarily enable some people to abuse others.
The very ideas of profit, investment, and interest are absurd and as bad as theft and murder. Of course, we do them anyways. I don't steal or murder 'people' but life must consume life, and the others happen too.
@relee @001zlnv @Felthry Yeah, there are a lot of issues that come from workplaces-that-are-necessarily-homes, like ships and offshore industrial facilities and such. Best we can say is the 24th Century Federation seems to have worked out the issues in ways that are mostly satisfactory but we don't know the details.
@Felthry @Austin_Dern Yeah I was going to mention it and cut it out, but Amazon is trying to do that now. Apparently they got tired of different cities showering them with treasure if they set up a distribution center nearby, and want to just make their own town instead and pay people in scrip.
It does seem like offering cheap apartments would be a good way to offset low wages, but I really don't want my performance at a minimum wage job to affect control of my living space.