Slavery is quite a loaded word, agreed. My point is your time on this Earth is more valuable than $250k. It is not being a slave, but it is not being a free ma

Slavery is quite a loaded word, agreed. My point is your time on this Earth is more valuable than $250k. It is not being a slave, but it is not being a free man either. There are people in abject poverty that do not have to ask for permission to anyone to spend two weeks doing whatever they want, or to end the day early today. I do not believe freedom is one-dimensional, on one side the Egyptian slave, on the other, the FAANG engineer. The latter has only a theoretical ownership of their time, but in reality, to keep a roof over their head, society pretty much favours only one choice: As much time as you can give, for as little money as you would take.