alt Hacker NewsJane Doe making $14/hr at McDonald’s is absolutely a wage slave. It is different than historical chattel slavery, but no less slavery, albeit dressed up to look less offensive on the surface.
Jane Doe making $14/hr at McDonald’s is absolutely a wage slave. It is different than historical chattel slavery, but no less slavery, albeit dressed up to look less offensive on the surface.
> no less slavery
It’s absolutely less than slavery.
Slaves are property. They have no rights. They can’t quit. They can’t claim unemployment or long-term disability. They can be summarily executed.
You can kind of fuck around idiomatically with the term slavery in some cultures. But not in ones that had chattel slavery.