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You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.
People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.
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You misspelled "wage slavery"
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No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods...
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Depends on if you can't live comfortably or not still.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I'd wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages
Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income.
So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.
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Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?
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this guy has figured out capitalism
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Keep it down what if they start organizing?
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Great workaround rec, thanks
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I think since then it's happened a few more times. Don't forget those that have 2-3 full time jobs.
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Ugh! I’ll have to hire kids on drugs to compete with those fat cats pulling down three salaries!
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My first thought was of envy too, but then I thought about the details and I got anxious. For example:
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I love this.
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Wealthy people don't buy things, they buy time - other people's time.
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On behalf of landfills and floating trash islands, they buy plenty of thing things, too.
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