The description of the factory and just how many facilities, amenities and cultural activities were organized there really struck me - and in particular, how obvious such an arrangement should be. Like, of course a place of work, the place at which workers spend most of their life, the place that produces everything needed for life, should have every facility needed for life! If it's being organized by the workers who run it, that is.

It really showed, from a specific angle I hadn't conceptualized before, just how much of a tyrant's domain the capitalist workplace is, like here is this place that could be a nexus of community, but instead on top of it is squatting a dragon that demands you to leave all your problems and your humanity at the door. Housing? Your problem. Childcare? Your problem. Medicine? Your problem. Your only purpose is to enrich the owner, and maintaining your wellbeing is of absolutely no concern, beyond the wage they must grudgingly pay you. And if you're really lucky and get a job in the upper echelons of a very wealthy company, they might give you the kind of perks that, as we can see here, any socialist factory worker would demand as a matter of course. Like those Silicon Valley campus type companies, with all of their obscene wealth, manage to produce a pale shadow of the work-life integration of a factory in the USSR in the 30s.