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What were company towns and company stores really like?

An excerpt from Lew Rockwell:

But what about cases in which competition doesn’t seem to exist, when there is only one firm and that firm provides not only jobs, but also runs the schools and stores and rents the housing? This is the “company town” of American folklore (“I owe my soul to the company store’). The most interesting results of Fishback’s studies concern the economics of the company town.

It turns out, the private paradise of the company town provided stores, houses, and schools as part of a highly desirable compensation package. They did this to attract workers. Rents were low, store prices were competitive, and the schools were good. Again, the reason is competition. If the company ever slacked off or attempted to exploit a “monopoly,” workers would leave the company town to go to work elsewhere.

In contrast to this free market, modern labor law has brought us nothing but trouble.

And heralds. Start here.

“The greatest mitzvah in Judaism is: use your brain!”

The following Russian-language Torah website looks good through Google Translate: Toldot.ru

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What is the first thing a Jew must do in case of sexual child abuse? Call the cops! Of course.

But as a Jew who believes that the police should not exist in their current, public form, this doesn’t inspire enthusiasm. How are the police doing in all other areas…? The only reason to use their services is that the only choice is between that and nothing. If, and when, competing, private security firms and courts are decriminalized and unhampered, government excesses and shortcomings in this area become unforgivable.

This includes:

• Undue process.
• Arbitrary age of consent.
• Prisons (with all that entails: rape, welfare, slave labor, etc.).
• Moral hazard.
• Legal malum prohibitum add-ons and prosecution deals.
• Child Protective Services
• Feminist bias.

So what?

So going to the police will not always be the right move, and, even in the present time, perhaps not in every country on the globe. If you can wrangle something other than sterilization and\or welfare until parole, this might be the answer.