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Originally Posted by Alan
Am I a slave to my father because I have responsibilities in the house?
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No more than I'm a slave to my boss because I chose to accept the job I have.
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SEriously, what a fucking hyperbole.
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Oh, and JCC's little spiel wasn't?
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But let's work with your definition of slavery. So because in socialism everyone is 'a slave' to everyone else, it is better that billions are 'slaves' in much, much shittier conditions so that a handful in the whole world aren't 'slaves' to anyone, in a society of the type of 1984 where this obsession with hierarchy (the handful of free capitalists being better than the billions of working slaves) comes with the sacrifice of net material wealth?
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I love how you say "let's work with your definition of slavery," and then you don't.
The United States and Japan are the epitome of capitalism in this world. We are what anti-capitalist complain about. (The US more-so, of course.) Oh, yes, our poor have such shitty living conditions. Flat-screen TVs, LCD monitors, iPhones, Blu-ray, enough food to throw away a large portion of it uneaten. Even our homeless have cellphones, MP3 players, and laptops. Oh, those poor things.