Yea, holding a job is just like slavery. It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it. One time I had to help a customer after I clocked out. You can read about it in my best selling memoir: twelve minutes a slave.
The point is not that workers under capitalism are not paid wages, but rather that working for wages is required to survive.
Workers live under consistent threat of destitution, homelessness, and starvation, even while massive wealth is hoarded, and resources controlled, by an immensely privileged, narrow cohort of society. The coercive conditions of labor under capitalism give rise to the comparison with more explicit forms of slavery.
Yea, holding a job is just like slavery. It makes perfect sense if you don’t think about it. One time I had to help a customer after I clocked out. You can read about it in my best selling memoir: twelve minutes a slave.
The point is not that workers under capitalism are not paid wages, but rather that working for wages is required to survive.
Workers live under consistent threat of destitution, homelessness, and starvation, even while massive wealth is hoarded, and resources controlled, by an immensely privileged, narrow cohort of society. The coercive conditions of labor under capitalism give rise to the comparison with more explicit forms of slavery.