minus-squarehbrgnarius@lemmy.worldtoToday I Learned@lemmy.world•TIL many US companies in the late 1800s-1938 would pay their employees in company scrip, a currency issued by the employer and can only be used in company owned stores where they upcharged exorbita...linkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·1 year agohttps://xkcd.com/1053/ linkfedilink
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