Back in the days of the robber barons, when moguls owned company towns and paid their employees with scrip they could spend only in the company stores they also owned, Americans stuck in these pathetic little fiefdoms had no way out. The master who lived up on the hill in palatial opulence literally looked down on his workers while controlling virtually every aspect of their lives.

Those days are long gone...or are they?

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