Comment on He took it literally

• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  All workers under capitalism are slaves in a loose sense of the word. Your labor creates more profit than what they pay you in wages (otherwise the owners wouldn’t employ anyone). Typically, your wages are only a small fraction of what your labor makes the owner.

  While the capitalist gets to pick a profitable time in which to invest their money (e.g., buy labor, machines, stocks, etc.) the worker is born into institutions that force them, on threat of destitution, to sell themselves by the hour. We are really not much different from feudal serfs.

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  • Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t mean “This is like slavery”, I meant that literally the US Constitution specifically allows for prisoners to be used as slaves.

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    • balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Yes, I know. The US. has literal slave-labor in prisons and US corporations depend on slave labor overseas. But even workers who are better off are being exploited.

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