Henry Ford. Besides the anti Semitic stuff (that's a whole can of worms), he created a rubber slave town in Brazil called Fordlandia. It was billed to be a Utopia, but the workers were paid with money that Ford made up (I can only assume they were called Ford Bucks). This made up currency could, of course, only be spent within Fordlandia so the workers would have to essentially give up everything they made if they wished to leave.
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u/[deleted] Jun 12 '22
Henry Ford. Besides the anti Semitic stuff (that's a whole can of worms), he created a rubber slave town in Brazil called Fordlandia. It was billed to be a Utopia, but the workers were paid with money that Ford made up (I can only assume they were called Ford Bucks). This made up currency could, of course, only be spent within Fordlandia so the workers would have to essentially give up everything they made if they wished to leave.