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RE: If Owning Slaves Was Legal Today...
It's save to say, I think, that no wars were necessary to get rid of slavery; the holy markets would have invented the criminal wage-slavery we know today anyway; it's much cheaper to just pay some minimum wage and say "now get out and come back tomorrow", than it is to actually take some responsibility for your employees well-being.
But that's what you said, and you tried to equate the responsibility employers took over their destitute employees as the same responsibility that a slaveowner took over guarding his property.
But where's the thing you so desperately want to disagree with or point my attention to?
Indeed, I said that. Now you ask yourself: why make a distinction between "slave" and "wage-slave", when I go on to come to the same conclusion as you: we're still slaves, only without the physical whip. We can have a discussion about semantics, but I'd rather not. But then again, you, and I quote, "didn't even have to finish reading the rest of the article ..." Is that the problem? Or is it because I used the words "get rid of" when it's evident that we eventually we got rid of nothing? Because I don't see us having a difference of opinion on this topic.
That is my objection: that wage-slavery is not comparable to slavery. That's why I countered with actual Slavery, not semantics. Slavery is slavery is slavery and will never be a euphemism for dependence on wages. We are all slaves to breathing air, we are all slaves to be born and die, we are all slaves to gravity, we are all slaves to our desires and fears, those are merely euphemisms for things that are out of our control or that we have little to no control over, tell a person that is trapped in actual slavery that we are all slaves though, talk about insulting. We have a difference of opinion, I am not of the opinion that Slavery EVER went away, it only found different clothes to put on, new masks to cover itself with, and no, those aren't euphemisms for what we aren't in control or have little control of, but actual slavery and human trafficking. Wage slavery and Actual Slavery are never the same things, for the only reason that Wage Slavery exists is as a Euphamism and not as an Actual Injustice.