Forum Post: US is one big Factory Town

You ever heard anyone talk who lived their life in a factory town? A town where the factory or mill or mine owns the whole town, the sub-par housing, the grocery stores, the schools, and seems to have control of every aspect of an individual's life. Where profits over people is built into the structure of society. In old stories from people who lived in such towns, you would often hear that citizens/workers in the town would slowly start to drown in debt to the company. They owed back rent and could never work it off. They owed credit to the town general store and were stuck in a cycle of debt to the company. The prices the company run services charged were too high, the interest rates were too high, the housing was of poor quality and the education system seemed more interested in producing obedient workers than independent thinkers. This county has become a one huge factory town. A factory town run by corporations and corporate big wigs who seem to control more and more while we seem to be left with less and less, less agency, less resources, less social services, less jobs, less pay, less opportunity for credit, education, and independence. The social services that served us in the past are being scraped away like gum on the bottom of the corporate shoe. We are trapped in a system that has us exponentially in debt and with an ever-decreasing ability to control our lives. This controlling force is more interested in bottom line profits for those on the top than quality of life for the rest of us stuck at the bottom. Greed over love. War over peace. Company over community. Corporation over human. Wake up. Change the equation. We have had enough of the factory town and are ready to create a new community.