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.
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.