• Alaskaball [comrade/them, any]@hexbear.netEnglish
    15·
    8 days ago

    Joe Hill wrote a song about “paycheck slavery”, think it starts with the line “Would you have freedom from wage slavery?”

    Dunno maybe they should listen to some of Joe’s songs.

    • PartysPuppyGirl [pup/pup's, she/her]@hexbear.netEnglish
      3·
      7 days ago

      God forbid they see something like Fredick Douglass’ words on wage slavery

      The abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass declared “Now I am my own master” when he took a paying job. Later in life, he concluded to the contrary “experience demonstrates that there may be a slavery of wages only a little less galling and crushing in its effects than chattel slavery, and that this slavery of wages must go down with the other”.

      Text stolen from wikipedia because I’m lazy