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Is an employee in fact what used to be a slave?
I suppose if you break it down they are. Having a job truly does make you the property of an employer in the sense that that employer controls how you spend your time, what you do in that time and how well fed and housed you are.
Having a job is modern day slavery and it seems with the decline and hollowing out of social liberties and rights that many employers are keen to make sure that whatever they give employees is as little as possible. Sure, people don't wear chains in the literal sense anymore but in many ways little has changed since the days that they did have to wear them.
Even today when one is looking for a job one often uses interim agencies and recruiters to get one. And what are they except for slave traders because they line up potential employees to be judged and selected by an employer for a fee. And often times one will have to offer themselves up for work, showing off your youth, health, skills, whatever and willingness to do whatever they want. Just like in old times, because slavery was often a sort of chosen way of living, where one was poor and slavery the only means of getting enough food and care, in Europe at least. What's the difference with today, I ask you?
Most people are stuck in their jobs, unable to get out of them and completely depended on it for their food and housing as they live from meager paycheck to meager paycheck. And just like in old times your owner would occasionally throw the slaves a party to keep them happy and thinking that he truly cared for them. And on occasion your owner would allow you to take a few days off for a holy day, wedding, funeral or something for the same reason. This is different from today how exactly?
And in return for your indentured labor he would feed you and house you but never in the amount that you could achieve independence from him. Similarly an employer today just gives you money with which to buy food and shelter but never enough so that you could achieve their level of prosperity. Funnily many businesses are now so large and all encompassing that the employee will often end up spending their hard earned money on food, necessities and housing in businesses owned by the same employer that paid them in the first place. That way the employer gets back the money he paid the employee in the first place. Doubling the profit, ah, capitalism at its finest and most disgusting.
If an employee wasn't a slave then why aren't they allowed to profit from the fruits of their labors like the employer obviously does. He has many working for him and he is the one who will gain wealth and prosperity from their labor. He will pay his employees just enough to keep them alive and moderately happy and healthy. If they weren't slaves then why must they conform to the rules and morals of their employers, often even in their spare time. Why are employers allowed to demand loyalty of their employees and forbid them from seeking better offers.
Slavery is far from gone in this world and in some ways it is more prevalent in the West than it is in 3rd world countries. At least there one wears chains and whip marks as a testament to their bondage and exploitation while in the west the chains are invisible, the exploitation veiled but the people chattel none the less.
I suppose if you break it down they are. Having a job truly does make you the property of an employer in the sense that that employer controls how you spend your time, what you do in that time and how well fed and housed you are.
Having a job is modern day slavery and it seems with the decline and hollowing out of social liberties and rights that many employers are keen to make sure that whatever they give employees is as little as possible. Sure, people don't wear chains in the literal sense anymore but in many ways little has changed since the days that they did have to wear them.
Even today when one is looking for a job one often uses interim agencies and recruiters to get one. And what are they except for slave traders because they line up potential employees to be judged and selected by an employer for a fee. And often times one will have to offer themselves up for work, showing off your youth, health, skills, whatever and willingness to do whatever they want. Just like in old times, because slavery was often a sort of chosen way of living, where one was poor and slavery the only means of getting enough food and care, in Europe at least. What's the difference with today, I ask you?
Most people are stuck in their jobs, unable to get out of them and completely depended on it for their food and housing as they live from meager paycheck to meager paycheck. And just like in old times your owner would occasionally throw the slaves a party to keep them happy and thinking that he truly cared for them. And on occasion your owner would allow you to take a few days off for a holy day, wedding, funeral or something for the same reason. This is different from today how exactly?
And in return for your indentured labor he would feed you and house you but never in the amount that you could achieve independence from him. Similarly an employer today just gives you money with which to buy food and shelter but never enough so that you could achieve their level of prosperity. Funnily many businesses are now so large and all encompassing that the employee will often end up spending their hard earned money on food, necessities and housing in businesses owned by the same employer that paid them in the first place. That way the employer gets back the money he paid the employee in the first place. Doubling the profit, ah, capitalism at its finest and most disgusting.
If an employee wasn't a slave then why aren't they allowed to profit from the fruits of their labors like the employer obviously does. He has many working for him and he is the one who will gain wealth and prosperity from their labor. He will pay his employees just enough to keep them alive and moderately happy and healthy. If they weren't slaves then why must they conform to the rules and morals of their employers, often even in their spare time. Why are employers allowed to demand loyalty of their employees and forbid them from seeking better offers.
Slavery is far from gone in this world and in some ways it is more prevalent in the West than it is in 3rd world countries. At least there one wears chains and whip marks as a testament to their bondage and exploitation while in the west the chains are invisible, the exploitation veiled but the people chattel none the less.