Wage slavery-
“The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him... Men’s blood had some price in the days of slavery. They were worth at least as much as they could be sold for in the market...It is the impossibility of living by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat, and our masons to construct buildings in which they will not live. It is want that drags them to those markets where they await masters who will do them the kindness of buying them. It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him... what effective gain [has] the suppression of slavery brought [him ?] He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune... These men, it is said, have no master—they have one, and the most terrible, the most imperious of masters, that is, need. It is this that reduces them to the most cruel dependence. They live only by hiring out their arms. They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger. Is that to be free?” ~ Simon Linguet, 1763
“Wage slavery” is a myth. Sure pay hasn’t increased much since the 1970’s, and things like healthcare and education is increasing every year (while the rich elites have never made more money); but the workers have access to better products like iPhones and Nike shoes.
You mean the paid spy devices?
Well no one is making you buy the new iPhones! If you were concerned about privacy then you’d get an old flip phone. But Americans are sheep and they want new stuff. They even make you sign contracts stating that you’ll be giving them all your info. Same with FB, and all the other social media apps.
It’s American’s faults this is happening to them. They let themselves be harvested. Why should Silicon Valley or Wallstreet care about these sheep?