PART 2: THE PAST & CURRENT SLAVERY
In the past wage slavery was missing the word wage and the idea of human rights. However, still had the same purpose. A few with ideas or in the elite class persuaded, underpaid, or forced others to do the grunt work while they fucking enrich themselves. In the past colonialism, if you managed to find a land and settle on it - you’d better be prepared to fight to the death to keep it. And thought of sending your own people into war was out of the question if you have millions of slaves,
If the enemy or nomadic barbarians captured your citizens they were likely going to kill or enslaved them. Almost like an unfriendly corporate takeover.
In 1000AD slavery is a normal practice in England’s rural. People in difficult financial situations put themselves in debt to business owners, rich institutions. And if you have no means to participate at the elite level you were systematically lowered into self-enslavement. Men would sell their wives and children for a buck.Women will sell their sexuality for little food and supplies.
In Ancient Athens, slaves were even prohibited from marrying, as marriage was deemed the social privilege of the elite citizens of Athens.
In the US today, [Life is harsh for people who are unemployed or underemployed because of what’s blithely labeled a “skills mismatch.” The U.S. lost 8 million manufacturing jobs from 1979 to 2009 and has regained fewer than 1 million since. Coal mining employment has fallen 42 percent since the end of 2011. While the future lies in knowledge work, many jobs that are open today are for orderlies, burger flippers, security guards, and the like. For American men, median weekly earnings of wage-and-salary workers are no higher now, adjusted for inflation, than they were in the 1980s. JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon points to the “staggering” decline in labor force participation by men of prime working age, 25 to 54. “There’s something wrong,” he said in a conference call with reporters on June 6.]--Source (Unknown)