Really! How so? From that wikipedia page: " An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time,[...], in exchange for

Really! How so? From that wikipedia page: " An indentured servant is a laborer under contract to an employer for a fixed period of time,[...], in exchange for their transportation, food, clothing, lodging and other necessities. " Here you are paying a fixed sum of money that they can use for whatever they want (instead of the minimum necessities like food and clothing) and you are not the employer, the person can work on anything they like as long as they pay back the dividend. I don't see what makes the two cases similar. In one case you pay the minimum so they work for you. In the other you pay some amount so they can work whatever they want but you get a percentage of that.