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

• Maeve@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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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      • Malfeasant@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        “but they’re paying $15 an hour, isn’t that what you people* wanted?”

        Uh, it was, but that was 10 years ago…

        *not the racist “you people”, just the run of the mill ignorant one.

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  • RegularGoose@sh.itjust.works ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Sadly, yes.

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