combat_boots: "I have my family’s history."
Pal, we all have our family histories, some more exotic than others... ;-)
But none can possibly justify your claim that "we're still a slave society."
That is pure hyperbole and metaphorical exaggeration, at best.
At worst, it's Marxism -- which I would hope you are not suggesting, here on Free Republic.
:-)
Ah.........
And here I was thinking you were merely wanting to insult me & my family.
“we’re still a slave society”
No. I’m quite conservative.
What I meant was in reference to 1) being wage slaves; 2) the practice in the last 40 years, anyway, of paying out golden parachutes and obsene compensation/bonuses/options & stock to executives, which serves to divide people working at the same corporation into castes; and 3) the job environments of companies like Appe, Microsoft, etc., which pride themselves on ‘campuses’ that are more like plantations.
I view these business practices as the wholesale adoption of a slave mentatlity in practice by (usually) Northern corporate interests. The North may have won CW I, but it nevertheless liked the profit margin.
Having come from a family of small businessmen, these are just my observations over the course of my own working life.
And no, I don’t mind the guy/gal at the top making a lot of money.