Or they 'owe their soul to the Company store...'   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2aqvKY6zLc  Jeff Beck and ZZ Top - Ernie Ford's SIXTEEN TONS - YouTube   ‘… [Central to the coal towns] was the concept of checking. (‘Another day older and deeper in debt’).  Being paid involved so-called 'checking'. Company house? Check, (minus) -x scrip. Open tab in company store?  Check, -x scrip. And so on.  The final sum was then waaay less than you actually earned, with forced payments for the cost of living, provided  by the company. Final spending budget was severely limited…’ http://gamestogather.org/fallout/coal-towns-scrip-and-i-owe-my-soul-to-the-company-store  Coal Towns, Scrip and "I owe my soul to the company store" Fallout   With the intentional worthlessness of fiat currency (‘scrip’), under the thumb of creeping globalist/fascist/oligarchic serfdom -  pre-Trump America (+ ****entire world) was far down the road toward being transformed into one big Company/Plantation of misery. The glories of crony/monopoly/disaster ‘capitalism’, vs. entrepreneurial capitalism.