Why complain that work = modern day slavery?

[strebitel86]

Government tax is a form of modern slavery.

 

[Cole train]

This whole thing reminds me of this good will hunting scene with one guy having options and one dont

 

[Lone Coyote]

Moreso that sending money home means there getting better value for their work, $5 an hour pays for a lot more food in Mexico City than it does LA.

Just to be clear, minimum wage in Mexico is around 5 bucks per day

 

[Alphaboy]

The prison industrial complex is modern day slavery.

Work is a privilege.

 

[Streeter]

Yeah ...... fuck the money system. Noone should have to work. Just be provided everything so we can all just watch tv n play video games all day. Damn fucking system expecting us to work like a sucker.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Jesus christ the republican talking points, really?

Lol. Verbatim. It’s also a Ferengi talking point.

 

[Deleted member 405583]

Lol. Verbatim. It’s also a Ferengi talking point.

 

[Jack Reacheround]

Also, wage employment becomes modern day slavery when firms begin colluding to keep the cost of labor down. This happens when there are too few firms in each market to actually effectively “compete” for labor by increasing wages. Instead, they have an unwritten agreement to not attempt to pay their labor more than their “competition.”

 

[William Huggins]

I like how he said if you are not limited by skilled labor.

Except alot of us are unskilled and limited with our skills or education.

Buuut i get his point though, slaves are something else and this from a guy who lived in a place where people were snatched to slavery

UK?

 

[Rocco Siffredi]

Just longer chains bro.

What would Frederick Douglass say about this???

 

[Cole train]

UK?

a lot more east

somewhere between germany and japan

 

[William Huggins]

a lot more east

somewhere between germany and japan

Aha......... Wales........... Never stray from the path, tread softly and always wear your wellys 4 sizes too big

 

[William Huggins]

What would Frederick Douglass say about this???

Furry chains only, I think.........

 

[Phlog]

What would Frederick Douglass say about this???

Had to look him up! I don't know, it would be an interesting conversation. He might believe in a qualitative binary difference, I think I could argue to the contrary using different forms of historical slavery as evidence.

 

[Kaybee]

Everytime some mofo comes at me with this shit, I ask why they don't just quit. Bug off with your punk ass whinning.
It could be so much worse ..

 

[Jack Stevonovich]

This whole thing reminds me of this good will hunting scene with one guy having options and one dont

 

[aerius]

Just longer chains bro.

When I worked in banking we called it "soft slavery". We're civilized so we don't use chains & whips these days, rather, we use money and various rules & societal expectations to do the same thing; that is, keeping your nose to the grindstone while extracting the fruits of your labour and leaving you just enough so that you don't get any funny ideas about overthrowing the system. Sucking people into debt and making them buy shit they don't need is not an accident. Constant inflation to devalue your savings and encourage spending is also by design. Our society is designed to make people into willing debt & wage slaves.

 

[Philo-Publius]

Everytime some mofo comes at me with this shit, I ask why they don't just quit. Bug off with your punk ass whinning.
It could be so much worse ..

They don't understand that our real value is our production because they are not being educated properly. Money is just paper and credits in a bank account are just blips on a screen. You need production and resources to back up your currency. This is why Socialism is generally a colossal failure. If your population is not productive enough to support itself, the population will starve and/or live under terrible conditions.

 

[Noveltymortar]

Everytime some mofo comes at me with this shit, I ask why they don't just quit. Bug off with your punk ass whinning.
It could be so much worse ..

People have no understanding of history. They are therefore too stupid/unaware to realize that utopia can't exist and furthermore that the "common man" is in better shape than at almost any period in history.

 

[Graves The Elder]

deep