• EfficaciousSkink@lemmy.world
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    11 months 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”.’