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would the adjustment of 'most employment is inherently slavery' satisfy your pedanticism? economic enslavement is ubiquitous and not at all how it must be.

• AnimalMuppet 12y ago
  No. It's still a claim grounded in rhetoric rather than reason. It's the lack of anything but rhetoric that bugs me, not the specific wording. I mean, look, one could perhaps make such a claim, and make a reasoned case for it. The article doesn't do that. It doesn't even try. It merely defines work to be slavery, and quotes some people who agree. That's not proof, not evidence, and not very convincing. It's just rhetoric. So the author dogmatically makes an assertion. That and a buck will get you a Coke at McDonald's. If you want me to listen, though, you're going to have to do a lot better than that. [Edit: The article did give some reasons. They're dogmatic generalizations that are so far removed from my experience of work that I completely dismissed them as mere rhetoric.]
  • ThomPete 12y ago
    What non-dogmatic evidence have you provided to the contrary? The article lays out a perspective. You dont have to agree with that perspective but you sure need to do better than keep saying its not true.
    • TulliusCicero 12y ago
      True slaves can't quit. While most people do need SOME form of employment to provide income, changing jobs or working for yourself are both options that are available.
      • comrh 12y ago
        > changing jobs or working for yourself are both options that are available. To SOME. available to SOME.
  • fmblwntr 12y ago
    if you work as a software engineer pretty much by definition you are part of a tiny, tiny minority of workers in the world, so perhaps you should try thinking about the experience of workers in the third world via empathy?