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  1. Coal towns were owned and run by coal companies. Workers could use salary credit at the company stores where things were overpriced resulting in debt which you had to pay off by working for the city's only employer. Anyway, privatized cities are bad. apnews.com/article/legislature-legislation-local-governments-nevada-economy-2fa79128a7bf41073c1e9102e8a0e5f0
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      That cycle was the basis for the old song Sixteen Tons which had the line "I owe my soul to the company store"
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