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Is this different from indentured servitude?

• encoderer 15y ago
  Yes, obviously. While it can be whimsical to compare the two, and while you could come up with a single definition that is loose enough to describe them both, they certainly are different. The analogy breaks when you accept that, then, debtors prison was not meant to be ironic or figurative. It was a literal prison. Most importantly, the socioeconomic factors matter. Your comment is almost offensive to me. I'm an engineer in the bay area. I work for a startup. It's important to remember that while my colleagues and I aren't full-on rich, we are very very well off. As an engineer with 5-15 years experience, you have myriad options to earn between 100-150k. That's the middle of the bell curve. And it goes up from there with more experience, I just haven't made it that far yet. Sure, the bay area is an expensive place to live. But even here, that salary is more than double the median. This concept is aimed at engineers. They're not targeting inner-city troubled young adults. Indentured servitude? Hardly.