That's because of the way that word is, ya see.

It's not the same. As slavery or feudalism. Or indentured servitude. Or sharecropping. Or company towns and scrip. Or union-busting, "off-shoring", easy payday loans, easy credit, permanent basement minimum wages.

But here, and now? And surely, more clearly all the time, not just here, not just "for now" -

It's a new shape of boot, one of a few really, that look like the old boots, but a little different. And now with sparkling added (modern) effervescence (TM).