They could even lend you the money you need to pay for that training, how nice of them! Then, when you do start getting paid, they can take repayment (with interest) directly from your paycheck. How convenient!

They could also pay people in a form of crypto that's only accepted at the store in town that happens to be owned by the same people as your employer. Try trading that crypto for real cash, and you're fired.

They could even provide a place for your family to live, how nice! It's too bad if you found a cheap place to live elsewhere, it's in your contract now: gotta live in company housing if you want to work for the company. They'll take the rent right out of your paycheck too. How convenient.

Now if you even mention the word "union," in one fell swoop, they can take your job, your home and your ability to buy food for yourself and your family.

None of this is new. People in West Virginia (and elsewhere, of course) gave their lives so that we could move on from this shit as a society.

Those people would be sickened by what their chickenshit state has become, but that's besides the point...