You say that as if most of the rural south's economy isn't entirely run like that. When I was a corpo scumbag assistant, almost every GM had some sort of scam running with his boys, it was just a matter of sussing out which one it was because they weren't super clever about it. Corporate only started to care if you started posting multiple quarter losses, because otherwise they still won on the exploitation end of things.
You say that as if most of the rural south's economy isn't entirely run like that. When I was a corpo scumbag assistant, almost every GM had some sort of scam running with his boys, it was just a matter of sussing out which one it was because they weren't super clever about it. Corporate only started to care if you started posting multiple quarter losses, because otherwise they still won on the exploitation end of things.