The company owned the land, built the stores, so it only seemed right that they payed their workers in scrip and only allowed merchants to accept scrip in the town, yes? Eventually the country decided that such monetization platforms were too controlling and unfair...
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ because it's anti-competitive and anti-consumer?
There used to be a type of monetization strategy in the USA known as 'company towns': https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_town
The company owned the land, built the stores, so it only seemed right that they payed their workers in scrip and only allowed merchants to accept scrip in the town, yes? Eventually the country decided that such monetization platforms were too controlling and unfair...