I know I’m late to this but I just watched the video on YouTube where a news anchor drills one of the mods on here with questions. I was going to type out an entire refutation but figured I’d just focus on this one argument that these capitalist bootlickers make.
“It’s not slavery, when you can just quit.”
-Sure, it’s not in the sense where it’s blatant forced slavery. However, when you pay SLAVE wages you coerce these poor people to stay in these slave wage jobs, they work paycheck to paycheck and they CANNOT quit, why? Because how tf are they gonna pay rent/mortgage and put food on the table now? These people don’t make a decent wage so they’re forced to live in an endless chain of paycheck to paycheck, slave away for such shit wages that they literally cannot break the chain or else they’d be on the street. So yes, it is slavery. We’re basically glorified slaves, or a “rent-a-slave.”
Sorry guys if it sounds like I’m ranting but it irks me when these capitalist pricks say “WeLL iTs NoT sLaVeRy wHeN yOu cAn JuSt qUiT dUHh hUuh”