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Employee is the new Slave
CEO is the new word that means master. Its the person who owns the business that tells the slaves what to do.
But the slaves can choose from many masters, so no master owns them. They can slave to walmart, burger king, a gas station, or many others. So how can they be a slave if they can choose not to obey the commands of any specific "master"?
What would you call it if long ago when the normal kind of slavery was legal, the masters got together to find a way around the new anti-slavery laws... They invented a new kind of money, called freedomdollars, which only they can create and they have most of it. They agree to only accept freedomdollars for all their products and services from now on. Every former master has enough freedomdollars to last a lifetime, so they keep most of it in savings. The former masters pay former slaves freedomdollars at a rate just slow enough that some of the former slaves have a choice between starving and borrowing freedomdollars from former masters, with interest. Other former slaves combined do not have enough freedomdollars to loan to all the other former slaves. Over time, the former masters get richer and the former slaves get more debt. The former slaves pick cotton in the same fields where they were slaves, and the former masters call them employees and still tell them when to come into work, exactly how to pick cotton, when they can leave, what kind of language they can use at work, what kind of clothes they can wear, and other demands we hear from employers today. But the former slaves can choose which master to work for, so they're not slaves.
(All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy. —Ben F Rayfield)
But the slaves can choose from many masters, so no master owns them. They can slave to walmart, burger king, a gas station, or many others. So how can they be a slave if they can choose not to obey the commands of any specific "master"?
What would you call it if long ago when the normal kind of slavery was legal, the masters got together to find a way around the new anti-slavery laws... They invented a new kind of money, called freedomdollars, which only they can create and they have most of it. They agree to only accept freedomdollars for all their products and services from now on. Every former master has enough freedomdollars to last a lifetime, so they keep most of it in savings. The former masters pay former slaves freedomdollars at a rate just slow enough that some of the former slaves have a choice between starving and borrowing freedomdollars from former masters, with interest. Other former slaves combined do not have enough freedomdollars to loan to all the other former slaves. Over time, the former masters get richer and the former slaves get more debt. The former slaves pick cotton in the same fields where they were slaves, and the former masters call them employees and still tell them when to come into work, exactly how to pick cotton, when they can leave, what kind of language they can use at work, what kind of clothes they can wear, and other demands we hear from employers today. But the former slaves can choose which master to work for, so they're not slaves.
(All my writing, here or on any website, permission granted to copy. —Ben F Rayfield)
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