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YouTube is the plantation, farming up views, Google the slave master and the algo is their whip.

• VikingCoder 8y ago
  ...except anyone can leave and get a new job, at any moment. The "slave" analogy is completely flawed.
  • throwaaa_zzz 8y ago
    It is not an analogy, it is a stylistic exaggeration. European literature is full of this and educated people are expected to detect it as such.
    • VikingCoder 8y ago
      You can just call it "hyperbole." It's a cheap trick which is why it belongs in dramatic literature, not in a discussion based on reason and facts. Another cheap trick is making an alternate throw-away account rather than having a history of comments that people can refer to, to see if you have contributed positively in the past, or if you're just an obnoxious troll.