[ SECRET POST #6463 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6463 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

You're only looking at one part of the picture.

Skyrocketing housing prices and health insurance being tied to your job are other parts of the picture. Of course you can just quit, just like that... as long as you have a nest egg or a benefactor. Or if you don't mind being homeless (which is considered a crime in many places now, by the way, so you might get sent to jail, which affects your chances of getting a good job), or getting sick/dying.

The current set up is designed for subjugation of anyone who's not rich. Keep you so focused on surviving that you can't think of advancement or thriving. That's what they mean by slavery. Of course those we define as actual slaves in history books had it worse in many ways. But you're kidding yourself if you don't believe modern forms of slavery exist in 2024.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

And? Those systems have been discussed in papers and books without conflating it to slavery. There's no reason to co-opt the word now. The realities are still very far removed from each other.

There is modern slavery; just look at prostitution.

More than ever, people ARE quitting their jobs, getting new ones, advancing, doing temp or gig work, and obtaining new skills. Because they have that opportunity. Slaves do not have this freedom.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

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You seem a little misinformed. For one thing, calling all wage labor slavery is as old as ancient Greece, in terms of what we have concrete proof of. It may be new to you, but it's not new.

For another, sex workers all over the world have contested the assertion that their work has anything more inherently slave-like about it than all other wage labor. And a lot of sex workers who resist churchy do-gooder efforts to drive them out of the trade consider service jobs more degrading, and the hours and pay inferior.

For another, most modern day slavery, even by the narrowest definition of forced labor like penal slavery, is producing commercial goods. Only the thinnest slice of that is or was ever "sex slavery." People are just more profitable as workers.

Moving around the labor market doesn't make anyone "not a slave." And being rigidly tied to one occupation was only a hallmark of some kinds of slavery. Being tied to one employer, in many places, had to do with not having earned enough money to leave. Just read up on the slaves in many government bureaucracies in the ancient world, or the slaves in an urban, recently colonized setting like the large cities of Brazil, and I think you'll find a lot of these stereotypes are untenable. And that's to be expected, because no one was going "no, no, we have to only do slavery in this one, set way." The economic conditions of the place (and time) shaped the exploitation.

Re: Vent thread

[(Anonymous)]

And?

And you are getting way too hung up on what people define as slavery to the point where it is blinding you to how fucked up the system really is.

I sincerely mean this. If you are not trolling, then you are very naive and/or privileged.