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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

You generally don't get paid for being a slave, nor recover your freedom after the crisis has passed.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Recover your freedom? So you're not free and are forced to work? Sounds like textbook slavery, to me. Indentured servitude is still slavery

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You are forced to go to school, you are forced to work to earn your life. Are those slavery too?

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There a huge difference between parents making a child do something, with basically no legal repercussions if they don't, and the government forcing an adult to do something against their will at the threat of prison.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

They are all restricting your freedom because there's a consensus that it helps the group in general.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

School doesn't kill you. I don't even qualify for the draft anymore and I know it's fucking vile.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think some school kids in the US would disagree with you there.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Forced labour and servitude generally fall under the umbrella of slavery, according to the USIDHR at least

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Nor will you if you're dead.