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Am I coerced or consenting to selling time and brainpower as a computer engineer? If I stop, CPS will eventually take my son from me, the bank will definitely t
by LeifCarrotson 4y ago
Am I coerced or consenting to selling time and brainpower as a computer engineer? If I stop, CPS will eventually take my son from me, the bank will definitely take my house from me, I'll lose my health insurance, and my car, and the grocery store won't let me take food off the shelves anymore...
There's definitely a spectrum of dead-end careers and employment by debtors with resulting economic exploitation versus desirable jobs that you have to show up to maintain, but it's quite a stretch to say that any hint of economic coercion is not OK. We're not yet a post-scarcity socialist society, the globe is very much capitalistic, and participation in our capitalist society implies some economic coercion.