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To: cuban leaf

“I’ve said for a long time that the modern word for “slave” is “employee.”

That’s as dumb as people calling Trump a fascist. You need to rethink your ideas.


20 posted on 10/16/2019 6:29:55 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie (Ca)
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To: SoCal Pubbie

You may be inferring something that is not there. I definitely see being an employee as a modern form of “indentured slavery”.

“An indentured servant or indentured laborer is an employee (indenturee) within a system of unfree labor who is bound by a signed or forced contract (indenture) to work for a particular employer for a fixed time. ... On completion of the contract, indentured servants were given their freedom, and occasionally plots of land.”

From here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indentured_servitude

I work around people that either work two jobs or work tons of overtime just to make ends meet. These people are always either working or sleeping - just like a slave - and earn just barely enough to get by - just like a slave.


45 posted on 10/16/2019 7:07:00 AM PDT by cuban leaf (The political war playing out in every country now: Globalists vs Nationalists)
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