I want to talk about wage slavery, and how it is similar to owning and renting a person.
What do you mean by that?
Wage slavery is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and slave labor.
Can you give some examples?
low wages, e.g. in sweatshops) and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices and leisure in an economy. The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their "species character" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution. Historically, some labor organizations and social activists have espoused workers' self-management or worker cooperatives as
) or simply unavailable for conducting commerce.
Bartering could be considered a social starting point towards an anti-capitalist system, by negating the need for a medium of exchange.
Wage slavery.
Wage slavery refers to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. It is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person.
The term wage slavery has been used