• yesman@lemmy.world
    15·
    2 days ago

    This sounds like some kind of hyper-libertarianism where even slavery is a individual choice or a personal failure.

      • DomeGuy@lemmy.world
        7·
        2 days ago

        “slave” means someone who cannot choose to stop working for another. If you can seek alternate employment or even just choose to stop working there, you’re not a slave.

        It’s common practice to use the noun in a poetic sense, such as “wage slave” or “corporate slave”, but such usage doesn’t rise to expanding the definition of the word.