WVian here. Company towns are a fairly recent memory for us, and amount to serfdom fading into slavery. Yes, we should be scared. If they start talking about oaying in script redeemable only st the company store, they are fully there.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter, don’t you call me, 'cause I can’t go
I owe my soul to the company store