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I'm not entirely convinced that this person knows what slavery is. Not only that, but he claims that "we all lose", then ends his post with nothing to support t
by kbatten 16y ago
I'm not entirely convinced that this person knows what slavery is. Not only that, but he claims that "we all lose", then ends his post with nothing to support this quite insane claim.
- noonespecial 16y agoAbsolutely. We should definitely call bullshit on this one. Slavery means that you don't own any of your productive output and more importantly you don't have a choice whether or not to create this output. There are people in the world who are still actual slaves. Stuff like this isn't helping. We should try to keep this word a little more hardcore than this particular frivolous use. No one is forced to use Facebook. They do it because it makes their lives better. The users are getting the value. That the company that supplies it gets some value out of it too is a brilliant... oh wait, no, that's just good old fashioned business, but on the interwebs.
- nandemo 16y agoI agree with you but he's probably using it in the same watered-down sense of "wage slavery". This is also a contradictory term but it's now in common use.