I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up.
It certainly is. Wage slavery is not a pleasant thing to experience. Your livelihood depends on your wages and job.
Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!
It's exploitation of labor. With unions being gutted, bargaining power between management and workers has become unequal.
I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one.
The whole point of unions is to eradicate the inequality of bargaining between the concerned parties, especially as regards corporations.
That's just what we need at my workplace. It seems like we just keep missing out on more and more.
You're not alone, unfortunately. The concept of wage labor and slave labor goes back as far as Cicero in Ancient Rome!
Oh wow, I didn't know that! So that makes me feel a little bit better about it I guess since there's probably been billions upon billions of people who have went through the same thing I'm going through.
possible alternatives to wage labor.
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, 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. Before the American Civil War, Southern defenders of
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