• @[email protected]
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    Amen.

    You can’t keep slaves anymore, but you can own a company and pay your workers an amount that makes it hard for them to pay for basic necessities so they don’t have time for leisure, or organising unions, or finding other jobs. The workers are free to go, of course, but then they’ll fall into financial ruin and not have healthcare.

    • Maeve
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      191 year ago

      Frighteningly few have health care with full employment, sometimes it’s not offered, when it is, it’s still not budgetable.

    • Solivine
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      141 year ago

      That’s exactly what it is, then I’ve had people laugh at me when I compare it to slavery.

      • Maeve
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        211 year ago

        It’s called wage slavery and you can use that information to educate, if any will listen.

        • Solivine
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          131 year ago

          Nah, most will just say get a better job, you’re not working hard enough etc. Lots of people I speak to tend to frame it as a worker problem rather than a problem with the system. It’s also why lots of people seem to be anti strikes…

          • Maeve
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            101 year ago

            Well I did use a qualifier. I know. I was in McDonald’s one day getting a soda and they took forever. A young woman was griping that “it’s those kids! No one wants to work anymore!” I told her for those wages and what was expected, i don’t blame them. I got an angry glare.

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              61 year ago

              “but they’re paying $15 an hour, isn’t that what you people* wanted?”

              Uh, it was, but that was 10 years ago…

              *not the racist “you people”, just the run of the mill ignorant one.

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          Too many people seem to think that chattel slavery is the only thing that counts as slavery, and that even that doesn’t count if a slaver is less horrible to their slaves than other slavers are.