Serfdom
Hey, it worked longer than this system.
posted by Matt Bors at
1:31 AM
Feb 4, 2009
AUTHOR: MATT BORS
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I love that shamwow guy!
Throw in a free Snuggie™ & I'm sold.
Funny you should mention free snuggies...those are coming...
Dollars to doughnuts some righty hack compares the new limits on CEO compensation to serfdom or slavery. How will these heroes ever live on $500K per year plus stock options and their accumulated wealth for a year or two?
Well, the point is that hardly Serfdom or Slavery are going to be introduced in a first world country. And not for the laws, surely (there is a bipartisan consensus about freedom to slavement), but because modern "wage slavery" is more convenient to bosses than "ancient slavery" or "feudal serfdom". For two reasons:
- slaves are property. If there is a shortage of work you can sell them. But if you are not going to sell them you need to feed them. If you starve them fo die, you are destroying your own property. Contrarily, sacking "wage slaves" cost nothing to you.
- serfs are partially owners of land and tools. They produce and a part of the production is yielded to the lord. But if serfs are bonded to the lord, lords are also bonded to the serf. Modern wage slavery dissolves this inconvenient bonds.
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