• iegod@lemm.ee
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    9 months ago

    This is actually a batshit insane comparison. You’re fucking crazy, man.

    • Strawberry@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      9 months ago

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

      Similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome, such as in De Officiis. With the advent of the Industrial Revolution, thinkers such as Pierre-Joseph Proudhon and Karl Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery, and engaged in critique of work while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines. The introduction of wage labor in 18th-century Britain was met with resistance, giving rise to the principles of syndicalism and anarchism.

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      9 months ago

      In my view, crazy is a dismissive word used to avoid making an attempt to understand. A lazy word, and I think most who think about it realize this and stop using it.

      I can see your perspective, but I believe you’ve made minimal effort to understand the “crazy” ideas you are being presented.

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        9 months ago

        Lazy and offensive is comparing people as property to what we have now. I do understand the hyperbole but it’s so fucking wrong I can’t even respond any other way. Actual property that can be done with whatever the owner chooses, versus the struggles of today. Get out of here with being an apologist on this.