I found out about this from a government staffing post on !mildlyinteresting@lemmy.world. The TVA started as a New Deal regional modernization project in the 50’s, and has a mildly interesting history. Very good.

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    29 days ago

    I don’t know why but this reminded me of…“The day my mama socked it to the Tennessee Valley Authority”.

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      29 days ago

      The TVA is super fucked from an environmental and civil liberties perspective, and has long been a folk-culture boogeyman for that reason.

      Lots of poor working-class people were kicked off land that had been in the family for generations with zero recourse and very little compensation.