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Amazon is slowly creating their own nation state, where you can grow up in their ecosystem, live in their housing, attend their schools, train through their job training programs, and work your entire career for them.

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Next step is to pay employees with Amazon gift cards (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip)

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Wow! The more you know.

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Company towns apparently haven't disappeared at all, despite what people might think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1rzFyBdKLvU

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There's an old song about that: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E5VMZqgVzRo