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>Ah, virtual slavery. We are all ANYTHING at SOME level or another.
No. We are not. This is sophmore logic.
We are not virtual slaves; we are slaves. Period.
>If you can tell someone else what to do, you're an actual slavemaster.
Not necessarily. You could be merely a higher ranking slave.
>If other people can make you do things you don't wish, you're an actual
slave.
Correct. My point exactly.
>But this isn't the same as real live actual chattel slavery, where you're
bought/sold directly; where immediate work and obedience are required of
you without payment, under pain of a direct threat of force.
Chattel slaves do get paid. They get paid in food and shelter. The wage
slave get's paid in money which (s)he must then exchange for food and
shelter. The chattel slave has one master. The wage slave has many
masters. Both are slaves.
It's better for a slave to be a wage slave than a chattel slave for the
same reason that it is better for a chattel slave to be a house slave than
to be a field slave. But a slave is a slave. What makes a slave a slave is
not how hard (s)he works, or how well (s)he gets paid or how many options
(s)he has. What makes a slave a slave is force. Period. Whether it is
applied or merely threatened is immaterial. Force is force.
>The "wage slave" has many more options that the chattel slave, is not
subject to the same direct physical coercion.
A slave has exactly two options, obey or be punished. Neither are defined
by the slave. Both are defined by the master. If you are a wage slave you
have no say over how you do your job except for as much say your boss
says you have, which is exactly equal you having no say at all. You do
have options, though. You have exactly two options, no more and no less:
do exactly what he says or get fired. If you do anything other than
exactly what he says, he will fire you. You will be forced to leave the
premises. If you resist, armed goons in uniform will physically eject you.
If you resist they will beat you. If you resist with sufficient vigor,
they will kill you.
Now you are out in the street. You have exactly two options. Find a new
boss or go hungry. Whether or not you find a new boss is not up to you,
it's up to the bosses. If you are lucky enough to find a new job then you
are right back to where you started. You have two options, obey or be
punished.
If you do not, or cannot, find a new boss then you can't pay your rent (or
your mortgage, which amounts to the same thing). Your landlord (or the
bank, which amounts to the same thing) will evict you. You will be out in
the street as well as hungry. If you refuse to go, armed goons in uniform
will physically eject you. If you resist, they will beat you. If you
resist with sufficient vigor, they will kill you.
These are the options of a slave, obey or die. A wage slave, should (s)he
exercise the option of refusing to obey, does (unlike the chattel slave)
have the official option to choose between starving and being beaten.
Big whoop.
If you are a chattel slave and you screw up or mouth off, either the
master or a higher ranking slave will beat you. He might do it on the
spot. He might put it off until Sunday so the whole crew can watch. Either
way you get a beating. No option there. Of course you can run away. Then
you have the option to starve. But if you run away you are no longer a
slave; now you are an outlaw. Outside of that, you take the beating. Now
or later, a beating is a beating.
If you are a wage slave and you screw up or mouth off, you never get a
beating on the spot. In order to access your option to starve you don't
even have to run away. You can either go quietly or be thrown away. The
beating or starvation comes later.
What makes a slave a slave is force, threatened or applied. Force is
always threatened. Whether it is applied now or later is irrelevant. Force
is force.
The difference between a chattel slave and a wage slave is one of rank,
not one of status. A slave is a slave. A high ranking slave i a slave and
a low ranking slave is a slave. A slave is a slave. Capiesc'?
>Don't mistake the virtual for the real. Beware analogies.
I'm not speaking in analogies. I'm being 100% literal. Don't mistake the
literal for the analogy.
>Some other virtual situations
Not:
>If you pant, you're a virtual dog.
No, you are not. Panting is not what makes a dog a dog. Having dogs for
parents is what make a dog a dog.
>If you loan someone a quarter, you're a virtual banker.
No, you are not. If you loan someone a quarter and charge interest, you
are a banker. Usury is what makes a banker a banker. Anyone can loan.
Only usurers charge interest.
>drive too fast, you're a virtual escapee,
Speed is not what makes an escapee an escapee. Pursuit is what makes an
escapee an escapee.
>or a virtual race driver,
Speed is not what makes a race driver a race driver. Competition is what
makes a race driver a race driver.
>or a virtual jet pilot.
Speed is not what makes a pilot a pilot, jet or otherwise. Flight is what
makes a pilot a pilot.
>If you can get your VCR to tape more than one show at a time, you're a
virtual software engineer.
If you can get your VCR to tape more than one show at a time, you are a
software engineer. If getting your VCR to tape more than one show is your
only capability in the field then you are merely a software engineer of
limited capability.
>If you live in a dreamworld, you're in virtual reality.
Only if you think you aren't dreaming.
If you have to work to avoid starving or being beaten, and you think you
aren't a slave, you're dreaming.
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