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.
Are you serious? The difference right on the surface is that these people get to keep their wages, while slaves don't get anything from their labors but enslavement. Big difference.
And why are these people struggling to get by? What kinds of jobs are they working at? Did they finish school and have an education? Do they have markable skills wanted in the workplace? Are they in beginning jobs like flipping burgers and serving french fries? Are they wasting their earnings on drink and drugs? Are they thinking they that they deserve better? Do they want someone else to pull them up by the bootstraps and buckle down for them? You didn't elaborate. You're not telling the whole story here.
This country, under the Constitution and capitalism, offers its people the freedom of opportunity to do what ever they set their minds and bodies to. It doesn't guarantee everyone will get rich but then it doesn't prevent them from getting ahead either.
And my last question for you is this. Why are you on a site like FR espousing these dreary, doom and gloom "employees are indentured slaves" crappola? That philosophy is the antithesis of what this site is about.
Maybe you should move over to the DU website where you will get a better reception for your ideas of "modern indentured slavery" under capitalism.
...."In the only cases in recorded history where the masses have been able to escape grinding poverty is where they have had capitalism and free trade.... History is absolutely clear, that there is no alternative way so far discovered, of improving the lot of the ordinary people, that can hold a candle to the productive activities unleashed by the free enterprise system." ---Milton Friedman