People who are forced to work at jobs they hate, desperate to keep that job even though it robs them of life-force more than it pays them in money, who nevertheless need it because it is the only way to survive, are in a very real way not free.

Mar 25, 2021 路 11:35 AM UTC

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馃挏 You might find this interesting Capitalist Realism, Mental Illness, and Societies of Control youtube.com/rPeBEcsmWTY
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I'm self-employed, and I feel this way... I've had to lower my prices from making $15-$20/hour to $10, so I can compete with overseas sweatshops because, unlike most of Europe, the USA doesn't hold international orders and charge individuals high customs fees.
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Most people have half of their life stolen from them to make someone else rich. A better world is possible but we have to fight for it, and that entails more than voting
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I think the term for this is wage slavery.
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This is capitalism and there is no benevolent version of it that doesn鈥檛 involve this
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No sh*t. Working people have always known this. A job is a life sentence served in 8-hour daily increments.
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Amen to that
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It's capitalism working as designed.
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It extinguishes hope. This will only get worse as people are forced into jobs that could be automated. Just to keep them busy. Hello dystopia.
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