• HACKthePRISONS@kolektiva.social
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    9 months ago

    Before the American Civil War, Southern defenders of keeping African Americans in slavery invoked the concept of wage slavery to favourably compare the condition of their slaves to workers in the North.

    • Phoenixz
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      8 months ago

      Seriously, arguing that being paid for work is the same as being a slave?

      • maypull
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        8 months ago

        pay or lack of it isn’t what defines slavery

        • Phoenixz
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          8 months ago

          Dear. God.

          People like you are an insult to those that actually love slavery. ooohhh, you need to do a job you don’t like, it’s the same as being owned, having no option to escape, being abused. You insult millions of people that actually suffer because you read the equivalent of a Facebook post.

          You are not a slave, stop telling everyone that you have it so so bad. I’m sure you have problems, FIX THEM. Next you’re going to equate hospitals to Nazi extermination camps too, I suppose? All very reasonable

          • maypull
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            8 months ago

            wage slavery is immoral, even if other things are immoral, too.

            • Phoenixz
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              8 months ago

              There are no wage slaves, except for those in your head. I earn a living because of the work that I do. Then again, I guess you never learned a trade or worked to become good at something so now it’s hard for you to find any job beyond burger flipping, so you complain about how unfair it all is?

              Grow up

              • maypull
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                8 months ago

                wage slavery is real whether you want to believe it or not.