Comment on People who trade their time for money without saving up to buy back their freedom and time should be called voluntary slaves, not employees

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DomeGuy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

“slave” means someone who cannot choose to stop working for another. If you can seek alternate employment or even just choose to stop working there, you’re not a slave.

It’s common practice to use the noun in a poetic sense, such as “wage slave” or “corporate slave”, but such usage doesn’t rise to expanding the definition of the word.

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