• OfCourseNot@fedia.io
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      4 days ago

      ‘Paid’. When some egyptaboo tells you that “there weren’t slaves in Egypt at this time”, remember the ‘workers’ were paid in housing, bread, and beer. And were kinda bound by their duty to the God-Pharaoh. Totally not slavery!

      Tho now thinking of it it’s not like my wage stretches farther than that either…

      Edit: spelling and punctuation are hard.

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        4 days ago

        remember the ‘workers’ were paid in housing, bread, and beer.

        That’s more than many people will get today from a single job. 💀

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            3 days ago

            I am. Feel free to talk with people about this who live in old vehicles, on a friends’ couch or literally on the streets despite having a “job”. Or those who only have proper housing and food by working two or more jobs.

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                  2 days ago

                  The only reason we don’t have this shit in more rich countries often is that people receive welfare despite working a full-time job because it doesn’t pay properly. In Germany we call this “aufstocken”. Basically another way to create wage slavery and redirect money from the state towards the private sector. The US is just very obvious and very loud about everything. Other third world countries indeed don’t have it any better.

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                    In Estonia it’s just solved by the minimum wage being high enough to afford rent, even if it’s just a tiny studio in the larger cities for that wage.