You guys do realize that we are all just wage slaves, right? That’s how I see it. I am being rented by the Walmart family. And if I anger my masters, I lose my livelihood and potentially all my worldly possessions.
How do people not understand that just because you get a paycheck doesn’t mean you aren’t a slave?
See the definition below.
Wage slavery is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate.
Quote:
“The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him ... They were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market ... It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live ... It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him ... what effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune ... These men ... [have] the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. ... They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?”
If you have no choice or no say over your own life, are you really free?