The Modern Slave - A Mirror We Refuse to Look Into
Posted by freedomforall 6 days, 3 hours ago to Philosophy
Excerpt:
"I recognize that freedom and slavery exist on a spectrum. Between the plantation owner's whip and complete autonomy lies a range of arrangements—serfdom, indentured servitude, debt bondage, and various forms of regulated participation in society. Most people would place our current system somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, arguing we have enough choices and protections to avoid the 'slavery' label.
But consider where we actually fall: When you cannot keep the majority of your labor, cannot opt out without facing state violence, cannot choose how your extracted labor is used, and face increasing surveillance and restriction of movement—how far from the slavery end of the spectrum are we really? The question isn't whether we're chattel slaves, but whether we're close enough to that end to warrant the comparison.
I use 'slavery' not to minimize historical suffering, but to cut through the comfortable language that obscures the actual relationship. Terms like 'social contract' and 'civic duty' prevent us from examining what's really happening. Sometimes the most uncomfortable comparisons reveal the most important truths.
This isn't about personal hardship or material deprivation. Many people living under this system—myself included—enjoy comforts that would have amazed historical royalty. The sophistication of modern control lies precisely in maintaining compliance through comfort rather than suffering. A golden cage is still a cage, and a comfortable slave is still a slave.
What if the most effective slavery in history makes its subjects grateful for their subjugation?"
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Source of the slavery: the banking cartel and their handmaiden fedgov
D.C. NIFO
"I recognize that freedom and slavery exist on a spectrum. Between the plantation owner's whip and complete autonomy lies a range of arrangements—serfdom, indentured servitude, debt bondage, and various forms of regulated participation in society. Most people would place our current system somewhere in the middle of this spectrum, arguing we have enough choices and protections to avoid the 'slavery' label.
But consider where we actually fall: When you cannot keep the majority of your labor, cannot opt out without facing state violence, cannot choose how your extracted labor is used, and face increasing surveillance and restriction of movement—how far from the slavery end of the spectrum are we really? The question isn't whether we're chattel slaves, but whether we're close enough to that end to warrant the comparison.
I use 'slavery' not to minimize historical suffering, but to cut through the comfortable language that obscures the actual relationship. Terms like 'social contract' and 'civic duty' prevent us from examining what's really happening. Sometimes the most uncomfortable comparisons reveal the most important truths.
This isn't about personal hardship or material deprivation. Many people living under this system—myself included—enjoy comforts that would have amazed historical royalty. The sophistication of modern control lies precisely in maintaining compliance through comfort rather than suffering. A golden cage is still a cage, and a comfortable slave is still a slave.
What if the most effective slavery in history makes its subjects grateful for their subjugation?"
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Source of the slavery: the banking cartel and their handmaiden fedgov
D.C. NIFO
SOURCE URL: https://stylman.substack.com/p/the-modern-slave
we are told that people have a RIGHT to medical care. that is simply a lie, unless you believe in slavery for someone to have such a RIGHT, someone else has to provide that medical care, forcing someone to ACT for the BENEFIT of another used to be called SLAVERY.
FORCING ME to provide the resources (by taxing me) for that other person's medical care, food, housing, care for their children, ect is ALSO a form of SLAVERY.
in the past, such benefit to others was provided by charity, but government took over this function, 100% unconstitutionally.
charity allows people to choose if their are going to help and how to do so. it also forced people to get involved, to make sure their "donations" went for a good cause.
now "charities" are funded by government and in most cases those "charities" have become agents to feed that funding BACK to the politicians that send it to them in the first place.
we as a nation are broken, on purpose
i see very few (politicians) fighting this, one is in the White House, with DOGE
is it not perfect, but you have to start somewhere and make progress to have a chance of fixing the real problems