I'm astounded that someone could read TFA, as I'm sure you did, and come away with that summary. Because it's the summary I might come up with if I read only the headline and was in a hurry to let the world view my hot take.
Headline: This isn't a company town and nobody is going into debt to the company.
I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy.
>I know it violates the guidelines but I suggest you actually read the article and reply to that, rather than just making things up in your head and replying to the fantasy.
How deliciously ironic. How about, from the very article itself:
"So a growing number of employers around the country have decided to build their own housing for workers, mostly for them to rent but sometimes to buy. "
The article is about Cook Medical, which is having homes built and arranging for them to be sold to employees. Nobody is renting anything.
In fact, the line you quoted is from the first of exactly two paragraphs in the entire story that mentions any other companies (and the second is a historical reference).
Isn't this similar to McDonald's point system? Workers get points as they work, different menu items cost a certain amount of points. They have to use all points (and eat their terrible food) before a certain period, else they lose them.
If McDonald's is taking money out of people's paychecks and replacing it with McPoints or whatever they call them, then yes.
Companies can give prizes or awards on top of paying their usual wages with actual money, but as soon as they start paying people less because they're compensating them with fake money it's a problem.