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The Right to Be Lazy (1883)

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kqr wrote: post #204
heavyset_go wrote: post #189

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mandatory on-call duty exists, as do drug tests, background checks, security clearances, etc. Employers can certainly decide how "free time" is spent and with whom you associate.

For employees under such rules, it certainly is a notch closer to slavery. I would guess the vast majority of people on this site are not under such rules.

There are plenty of people on this site whose free time is constricted by their employers because of things like non-compete agreements and anti-moonlighting clauses.

Re: The Right to Be Lazy (1883)

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Natsu wrote: post #118
eyelidlessness wrote: post #68

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Slavery usually includes ownership and force. Ownership applies very specifically to chattel slavery, and does not apply to the vast majority of extant slavery today. > I believe "wage slavery" is mostly used today because of the connotations of slavery that the user wants to hang their idea on to, but also clearly knows that it's not really it. No, it’s a much more sincere concept than that, from an analysis that…

> No, it’s a much more sincere concept than that, from an analysis that workers are forced to do labor which enriches others—in an involuntary exchange for a disproportionately small fraction of the fruits of that labor—rather than doing either the direct labor which would satisfy their own needs or the collective labor whose fruits would be shared by all. You say that, but that's not at all how it worked when that v…

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