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 Originally Posted by BananaStand
You've been literally enslaved by a political party that bought your allegiance with government entitlement programs.
I had deliberately avoided using the word "slavery" to describe a system in which people are bullied into a life of work, because I recognise that the word is too strong to accurately describe the system, and it would be an insult to those who have suffered actual slavery.
But here you not only use the word, but with the caveat "literally". Made me laugh. Am I enslaved? Why is the person who goes to work every day to justify his existence not enslaved, but the person who has no job literally enslaved? I'm confused, I thought slavery was something to do with being forced to work, either for nothing, or basic provisions. That why I know the system we live in is not slavery. At least people generally get paid a living which allows a healthy and happy life. Someone who relies on government to survive, they're not enslaved, such a word seems wholly inappropriate to me, especially considering I accept it's inappropriate for me to use it in a slightly more accurate context. Slavery is far too powerful a word to think it even remotely applies to the vast majority of people in first world countries.
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