We are all used to consider ourselves free - and modern reality readily supports this illusion. But is there such a thing as slavery left in the distant past? After all, today we can talk about the so-called economic "slavery", namely, compulsion to work constantly - which in fact is not so different from slavery in its primordial understanding ...
1. The need to constantly earn
Slave in modern conditions can not afford to remain without work. After all, he earned enough money to pay for housing, travel and food, exactly for a month. And more than that - he is forced to work throughout his life. After all, as a rule, pensions for a retired slave are enough to pay for public utilities and food (not always of good quality), free money for everything else (including at least a minimum set of necessary clothes) is not enough.
2. Necessity of constant consumption
If the earnings of a slave-man are able to cover the minimum needs with an excess, the following mechanism of hidden coercion is included. It consists in the artificial imposition of a number of pseudo-necessary goods, the creation of artificial demand for them. With the help of television advertising, skilful arrangement on the shelves and clever moves, the modern slave has a persistent idea that it can be successful only after acquiring a number of goods. Then he joins the race for a variety of "novelties" and supposedly necessary things, being forced to work indefinitely to pay all this.
3. The bondage of the credit system
The third trouble-free mechanism, which drives the modern slave to continuous activity is the bondage of the credit system, into which more and more people are drawn. It involves a system of so-called "loan interest", which many have to pay for through new loans, getting bogged down in this system. Not giving up the old loan and getting a new one, and then again and again, the slave of our time creates a whole pyramid of debts, it is extremely difficult to break out of it, and to pay, many agree even to the most poorly paid and hard work, since they see no other way out for themselves.
4. The myth of working for the state
It can be considered the fourth, no less successful than the previous ones, a mechanism that allows you to covertly make a person work tirelessly. Thinking that they are working for an abstract state, in fact the present slaves are quite unambiguously working for the hidden employers, which are a pseudo-state, where taxes paid by slaves are gone. The myth itself is created so that there are no unnecessary questions about where exactly huge amounts of taxes are being sent, and why slaves who work all their lives remain poor without having a share of profits in the so-called state system.
5. Inflation
The next - the fifth mechanism, designed to make a person work all his life is inflation. When prices grow at an astronomical rate, and salaries remain at the same level, at this point, a hidden robbery of modern slaves takes place. It makes the poor people go down with an even more beggarly, job-dependent state.
6. Impossibility to change living conditions
The sixth hidden mechanism of coercion to work is the deprivation of the opportunity to change the conditions of life. When a slave is deprived of the means to move to another place of residence, he simply has to work practically for a penny at a single enterprise in a city or township. While rejoicing that he has a job and agreeing to often carry it for miserable, irregularly paid out means. And it's completely free. Running as a matter of fact there is nowhere because of the lack of funds for such an escape.
7. No understanding of the real value
The next, the seventh way, which forces a modern person to agree to work throughout his life, is to deprive him of the opportunity to find out how much his labor really costs. And also the cost of the goods that he produces and the size of the share that the employer assigns to himself. Using this ignorance and having subordinated to itself the system of accounting accrual, modern slave owners take to themselves the entire surplus value of the goods produced, over which slaves have no control.
8. Earned by ancestors just disappears
And, finally, suppressing the scale of the profits that the slaveholders have extracted thanks to the work of many generations of slaves, they defend themselves against the demands of modern slaves of their own share, which they own from their fathers, grandfathers, great-grandfathers. After all, the ancestors certainly just as hopelessly worked during the long history of mankind.
Do you think that the current financial system makes people weak-willed?