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Comment on Slavery was abolished, so the rich are now trying to make economic oppression the equivalent of slavery.

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.

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Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Frighteningly few have health care with full employment, sometimes it’s not offered, when it is, it’s still not budgetable.

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solivine@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
That’s exactly what it is, then I’ve had people laugh at me when I compare it to slavery.

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- Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  It’s called wage slavery and you can use that information to educate, if any will listen.
  
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  - solivine@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨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…
    
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    Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨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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  - RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    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.
    
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    Maeve@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Sadly, yes.
    
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MrBusinessMan@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
They should just start their own business then and stop being a bunch of lazy complainers

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