• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    It’s weird how the name doesn’t break down to what it really means.

    If only there was a word that meant forced labour that injured the worker.

    • explodicle@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

      Every time someone brings up wage slavery, there’s some doofus who feels the urge to argue that it’s unfair to chattel slavery.

      “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.”

      — Frederick Douglass