Thus, you are a wage slave and that term is not a metaphor.
I’d argue that chattel slavery was on another “level” – the slaves were a relatively small minority and were dehumanized by almost everyone else, whereas almost everyone in a capitalist country is a “wage slave” and they’re mainly dehumanized by capitalists and their bootlickers (as well as racists, etc.)
Slavery can come in many forms. Chattel slavery is one of them, wage slavery is another. I did not tried to say which one is worse, just that wage slavery is slavery, not just metaphor for shock effect like libs are often say hearing the phrase.
I agree.
This only appears to be true on surface level and theory. But in practice not beign born into wealth still allows you to not only have your body or mind as your only capital. We get wealth mainly from creating value not labor. Could be difficult but doable.
Value is created through labor and thus wealth is necessarily the product of labor as well.
