The point is not that workers under capitalism are not paid wages, but rather that working for wages is required to survive.
Workers live under consistent threat of destitution, homelessness, and starvation, even while massive wealth is hoarded, and resources controlled, by an immensely privileged, narrow cohort of society. The coercive conditions of labor under capitalism give rise to the comparison with more explicit forms of slavery.
Is that the point? or is the point undermining slavery as an institution to demonstrate how much you hate your current existence? Do you think you could have used a better metaphor than slavery? For example Trump likes to think of himself as a king, that makes you a serf. Are we closer to feudalism than slavery? Idk lol how is any of this helpful or relevant to you? Are we more like peasants or slaves? When you’re done figuring that out, whatcha gonna do about it?
The point is not that workers under capitalism are not paid wages, but rather that working for wages is required to survive.
Workers live under consistent threat of destitution, homelessness, and starvation, even while massive wealth is hoarded, and resources controlled, by an immensely privileged, narrow cohort of society. The coercive conditions of labor under capitalism give rise to the comparison with more explicit forms of slavery.
Is that the point? or is the point undermining slavery as an institution to demonstrate how much you hate your current existence? Do you think you could have used a better metaphor than slavery? For example Trump likes to think of himself as a king, that makes you a serf. Are we closer to feudalism than slavery? Idk lol how is any of this helpful or relevant to you? Are we more like peasants or slaves? When you’re done figuring that out, whatcha gonna do about it?
I already explained, the comparison to slavery arises from the coercive conditions of labor under capitalism.