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I want every big box store and strip mall in America to be obligated to build enough housing on top and above as it would take to staff the store and their families at a minimum.
Im not living on site and working at the company store...
The number of managers that would come upstairs to knock on your door to get you to cover a shift; it angers me just imagining it.
It would be harassment and it should be made very clear that if your manager keeps showing up at your door after being told he's unwelcome and not to come back, you get to give them the old American ta-ta.
Imagine an America where managerial types are regularly legally filtered out from society by the combination of castle doctrine and their incessant need to bother staff.
Oh no doubt. The actual staff wouldn't have to live there. They'd just have to have that much housing built up over the stores.
But also thinking strip malls that are often filled with small stores already owned and operated by a family. They'd only need one or two units overhead, thus being close to as described in the original post.
Also gives a solid advantage to the small mom and pop over the soulless profit machine, I like this idea :)
I was under impression slavery was outlawed?
Its a neat idea. A lot of their workers are kids or youngings living with folks anyway. Gives a option for workers with fewer options. Depending how its played gives people not working there affordable options maybe?
There are those five-over-one constructions, which sort of fits, but they're cheap as hell. The construction isn't going to last.
Yeah, but I'm still glad to see those over the sprawling parking lot retail district approach we've been using everywhere for decades in the US. Maybe we'll do a better job on the revision when the ones you described start to fail lol, one can dream!
I think inspectors in NJ already started cracking down on those constructions after a nasty fire. Those things are all stick construction for speed and cheapness. Minimum concrete.