# Voters Head to the Polls to Decide If Elon Musk Should Get a Company Town in Texas

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/voters-head-to-the-polls-to-decide-if-elon-musk-should-get-a-company-town-in-texas/
- Published: 2025-05-04T09:45:00-05:00
- Author: Curated by John Wysocki

Photo credit: Jeswin Thomas via Pexels. Article by Lucas Ropek. Gizmodo – May 3, 2025. The “company town” is largely an artifact of a bygone era—a vestige of an unhappy time in American history when wealthy land barons controlled society, and labor rights, at least as we know them today, did not yet exist. Today, you’d be hard pressed to find many of these corporate slums active in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped Elon Musk from trying to bring them back in style. […] Click here to view original web page at www.gizmodo.com