• Spendrill@lemm.ee
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      tax chattle slavery

      I’m guessing the concept is that we are farmed as cattle because we consume and then the money we earn that pays for our food and shelter all gets funnelled upwards to billionaires and as an added bonus we pay taxes to pay for a government which serves the billionaires’ interests not ours.

      It is notable that we all talk about being part of national economies now whereas we used to talk about being a part of society.

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        It is notable that we all talk about being part of national economies now whereas we used to talk about being a part of society.

        This ^

        louder for those in the back:

        THIS^

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      It doesn’t mean anything. It’s something white upper middle class kids say when they want to pretend that working for money is at all the same as chattel slavery (he also spelled it wrong), which is how slavery worked in the US.

      It’s a disgusting turn of phrase that demeans the horrors of actual slavery in the US.