I have 10 years experience at my company, yet somebody new just got promoted.
gosh i bet it's frustrating!! my life depends on wages or a salary so i feel you
When did people start thinking it's ok to pay slave wages?
similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted as early as cicero in ancient rome
Did people also criticize wage slavery in the past?
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
Musicians Union in the early 40's and remained active in it until her death, of that experience she said: "It did give me the advantage of earning a decent wage. And as the scale went up, my wages went up. That made a difference in my life. Some jobs didn't pay what I wanted, but they paid the scale, and then later on I got above scale. Oh, the days are different now, as you know. It really made a difference in my life.