Is work really just enslavement?

You are enslaved because you are an idiot without skills. Plain and simple. Have fun in your cubicle.

Define work. Some people just have better jobs.

I've wondered the same thing many times. Those bankers who lost billions, they didn't lose their so called jobs.

They were GIVEN billions in made up (printed up?) money to continue whatever it is they do!

The USA should take advantage of it's world leader status and just print up money and give it to everyone in it's borders. Let China do the work for us. Why are American's working 12 hour shifts for next to nothing like slaves, and millions of other have no jobs or are imprisoned.

Meanwhile the billionaires get richer.

You say you'll change the constitution

yeah

we all wanna change your head

Sally Hemmy wrote:

The USA should take advantage of it's world leader status and just print up money and give it to everyone in it's borders. Let China do the work for us.

Someone fell asleep during econ 101.

Go back to watching your youtube movies about the evils of the fed, that 911 was a hoax, and that we're all enslaved to preserve the evil status quo. "Zeitgeist," right? My nephew got all excited about this last year after he wathced it, and was trying to explain how we were all slaves (well, not him, he was a trying to not drop out of high school, while mooching of the money proveded by his "enslaved" parents). I managed to sit through 10 minutes of that drivel. He's still avoiding slavery; unemployed living with his grandma, talking about the evils of employment (rather ironic, since he's never experienced it). I suspect you share some characteristics with him...

To the extent that you can keep the fruits of your labor, and are free from the repercussions of people you don't choose to associate with, you are not a slave.

Yes.

Probably something like 95% of us are wage slaves.

Capitalism enforces a strict class system, with the labor of the many enriching the few owners.

The fact that the tiny owning class has nearly all of the net worth does not prevent the vast majority of its members from being miserable and unhappy people.

Time for something new. Or old (pre agrarian).

Thomas Jefferson thought that employment was "wage slavery" and envisioned a country where everyone eventually would be self employed or would own a farm which would be a form of self employment. Didn't quite work out that way.

Thank god we aren't all farmers.

anecdotal evidence wrote:

You are enslaved because you are an idiot without skills. Plain and simple. Have fun in your cubicle.

You must be a Buddhist, eh?

Mtn dew wrote:

Thank god we aren't all farmers.

Depends on how you relate to sheep.

Curious Edward wrote:

Why does everyone keep babbling on about jobs job jobs.

Why should I work? Lebron James doesn't work, singer, entertainers don't work. Big bankers don't work, insurance people don't work, realtors don't work, Congress doesn't work.

Why do these people want me enslaved...

Seriously, how old are you? hopefully 19, 20 tops?

Also, explain your definition of work.

"insurance people" please explain your meaning of this. It almost proves your ignorance that you would lump everyone involved in the insurance industry into a group called "insurance people."

6/10. Lots of good responses here.

Only if you're the pathetic low (wo)man on the totem pole. Sounds like you are that person. Get out of your cubicle much?

You are writing stuff on letsrun at 11 am, it seems that you are already not working.

As for all of those who are crying about your low US wages, try to live in a third world country and get by on a sweatshop salary.

When you have paid millions of mortgage dollars to banks over a lifetime and then watched the government bail them out with even more of Your hard earned then you have to admit this guy does have a point.

oh, man wrote:

As for all of those who are crying about your low US wages, try to live in a third world country and get by on a sweatshop salary.

not clear what your motivation is. Why would anyone want to earn wages that are extremely low relative to management? Or support people who champion that kind of inequality? And the fact is that on a 'middle class' salary, or in fact a good deal less than that, you can live like a king in a third world country. On 30 to 40k, as an expatriate, you can have a huge house with half a dozen servants, a pool, etc. Cost of living in this country is extremely high relative to income. The housing bubble was really driving up rent and housing costs, which is why I'm glad that the speculators and slumlords like Vantage Management LLC are losing their shirt.

Oh that's just brilliant, because we aren't working in a 3rd world sweat shop then we must have it soooooo wonderful.

You are all so brainwashed since the time of your birth you can't comprehend anything besides, Yes Sir, Right Sir, I'll get right on that Sir!

Slaves!