• @EfficaciousSkink
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    1 year ago

    It’s a modified form of slavery: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

    ‘The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass initially declared “now I am my own master”, upon taking a paying job.[31] However, later in life he concluded to the contrary, saying “experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other”.’

    • @Mr_Pap_Shmear
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      71 year ago

      only a little less galling

      That hits different coming from a former chattle slave

    • Erika2rsis
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      41 year ago

      B-b-but in Epic Rap Battles of History, Frederick Douglass said, “The face of a free man, taught himself to read, man”, what do you mean he still felt like a slave in a wage system??