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We used to have company towns in the US with a problematic history. Workers were paid in companyBucks, worth only cents outside company stores, and lived in company-owned housing—similar to what’s shown in the series.
Plans to bring this back are underway in the US on federal land, supported by Peter Thiel. This is tied to Prospera, a special economic zone in Honduras run by a crypto company, where they test things free from government regulation, including risky experiments.
The class war has been ongoing, and workers haven’t made significant gains. The National Labor Relations Act aims to avoid strikes that hurt the economy, but it also legitimizes workers' collective bargaining. Erica Smiley & Sarita Gupta’s *The Future We Need* (2022) and Jane McAlevey’s *A Collective Bargain* (2020) are great reads on why worker organizing in the US has struggled but remains essential for challenging corporate power and achieving transformative change.
The problem boils down to decision-making not being centered on average workers or impacted communities, instead led by professional organizers or nonprofit staff. For unions, community organizations, and other 'justice' related campaigns. This is why so many hashtag resistance and nonprofit efforts fail (especially climate & environmental justice) - they're led by people who care about the conflict bc of intellectual agreement instead of survival.
Notice how climate justice campaigns are often more 'save the world' (charity-like, not direct self preservation) instead of 'don't poison my kids water' or 'stop filling our lungs with smog'. The messaging/culture around the former isn't as accessible to regular working people, it gets dominated by the wealthy & privileged, those with free time, as well as the highly-educated. Took me years to appreciate how those norms poison so many grassroots efforts - relying on the same people who show up for everything, the folks who care too much and imbibe their own 'activist identity' as righteousness itself.
B Mowglli
2025-03-14 05:41:49 +0000 UTC
I agree on that there really isn't any other show like Severance, or been like 15-20 years when anything like this was made.
Thamor
2025-03-11 13:44:49 +0000 UTC
5:00 Tyranny of power can come in many forms, and there was a time when the industrialists here really took power and wielded it like any other authority, the era of robber barons monopolizing huge industries is returning. Lunon is a private organization, a multinational superpower. The government is the people’s collective power to fight that sort of tyranny as well.
ETA: My point was sorta lost. Lumon is monopolizing their employee’s life, down to their spirituality, and doing it globally, while there are people in congress fighting on both sides. This show is about a type of war this country hasn’t fought in a while, but we have.
PolarBearTC
2025-03-11 10:00:24 +0000 UTC
47:28 "shes not dead shes just not here" i didnt even catch that the innie said that too when i watched, crazy details. the talk about gemma definitely triggered the Ms Casey memories
I felt that in the first season Cobel was like the father figure, strict discipline, and Milchick was more like the mother, gave "rewards" with some rules. But now hes the head of the floor and has to fill that role. this seasons doin a really good job of expanding ALL the characters
pachinko
2025-03-11 07:08:41 +0000 UTC
Regarding the painting conversation that happens around the 32 minute mark: I think he just has conflicting feelings about the paintings. He feels talked down to. The paintings are all the usual depictions of Kier but as a black man that the company gives all their black employees when they reach a certain status so they “can see themselves” in their founder (who is also like a religious figure to them? It feels like a company run by evangelicals.) it feels like its both a micro and macro aggression all at once.