4 ms·
I did not know wage slavery was a controversial term. Money is a tool of control, how do you earn money without being controlled by others and following their
by proksoup 12y ago
I did not know wage slavery was a controversial term.
Money is a tool of control, how do you earn money without being controlled by others and following their standards?
How do you spend money without controlling others? Like you donate someone a blanket, that's their burden now and they can be fined for littering if they don't take care of it properly.
We are tightly controlled and tightly control others. The consequences range from minor inconveniences to death.
Death and violence are less frequent per capita, but the threat and control remains.
Freedom and control are both illusions.
I'm free to quit and starve. All the food and land is owned.
- krapp 12y agoThe term is not controversial, but taking it seriously is, unless you're an anarchist and already assume that all societal constructs are attempts at coercion or slavery to begin with.
- proksoup 12y agoI am. I do assume that. What else would they be? How do you have a societal construct that isn't coerced? Voluntary participation of 100% of participants ....
- krapp 12y agoI would argue that such a definition dilutes terms like 'slavery' or 'coercion' to the point that they become nearly meaningless. Is this discussion we're having right now really worth considering a form of slavery? Am I attempting to control you, or are you attempting to control me? In this context, can it even be argued that language itself is an act of violence, or that there is even anything wrong with slavery, if it defines human interaction at so many fundamental levels? After all anarchy itself is a societal construct, with commonly accepted norms, accepted practices, attitudes, cults of personality. What would happen in a perfect anarchist society when someone inevitably questioned anarchy?
- deleted 12y ago[deleted]