Rewatching ” Mysteries of the Abandoned” on Discovery+. There's an abandoned town in Brazil that was called “Fordlandia.” Henry Ford built a rubber plantation and processing plant so he could have a source of rubber only for his company. He built a company town to go with the plantation so the workers had a place to live. There were rules though. No alcohol, no women, and no tobacco were enforced, among other things. Even had inspections of the houses to make sure. In 1930, the Brazilian workers were fed. They cut communications off and chased the managers into the jungle.
Seeing everything in the news and on the subreddit reminds me of the old saying: “Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it.” Just a thought I had today.