alt Hacker News>McDonald's workers are certainly closer to being slaves than any professor at Stanford.
If you stop short of saying McDonalds workers are slaves, and that they are merely closer to being slaves, then you are agreeing with me.
Slavery is not being poorly compensated or coerced into work.
> Slavery is not being poorly compensated or coerced into work.
It kind of is though :/
Like I get what you're saying, minimum wage workers have an autonomy that slaves would not have. But in practice that autonomy is often not meaningful in any real way.
I don't know. I just think that "You're a hair above being a slave so it doesn't count as slavery" is probably not a hill worth dying on