You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.
People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.
this post was submitted on 08 Feb 2024
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You misspelled "wage slavery"
No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods...
Depends on if you can't live comfortably or not still.
The official poverty rate in the USA was 11.4% in 2020 with 37.2 million people under the poverty line. I'd wager many of them might not hold a job due to having young children as well.
https://www.yonkerstribune.com/2021/11/slave-wages-what-are-slave-wages
Out of the homes, 38 could be considered low income, 44 middle income and 18 high income.
So nearly 1/3 of Americans would be wage slaves by the latter. Even worse for those under the poverty line.
Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?
this guy has figured out capitalism
Wealthy people don't buy things, they buy time - other people's time.
On behalf of landfills and floating trash islands, they buy plenty of thing things, too.
I will allow someone to buy me, but like software you won't "own" me. You will just be liscencing me and, at any time, I may revoke your access to myself.
I, too, have a job
Is abduction piracy in this case?
Cloning is more like piracy in this case, unless you are referring to seafaring piracy.
Sounds like dating!
And they can just use you on the terms which are described in your EULA
Well no, she can't buy Kanye. He's not a Supreme Court Justice.
Not yet.
Since we're already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don't think there's any reason he couldn't be a supreme court justice.
Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.
"But Elmo wants to know why policemen don't have an obligation to intervene to protect the public."
"Elmo is a bit confused. Why did Elmo learn to share, when Elon clearly doesn't?"
"some of Elmos best friends are black people" lol
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It's treason, then.
Actually slavery is still legal in the United States as a form of legal punishment when legally convicted so she just needs to wait for a jury of his peers to convict him and a judge to Sentence him then she would probably need to pay the state
So your saying all Tay Tay has to do is get into the private prison game and then she can own people?
She can't "own" people, don't be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That's messed up.
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She COULD purchase Jay-Z, though.
He said "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"
@TSwiftFTC? Is this a two-topic account about Taylor Swift and the Federal Trade Commission? 🤔
Her impact on the economy now has its own government agency.
Tbf, Texas was notoriously slow on this
I couldn't name nor recognize a single song from either of them. Shit, I need to improve my mainstream media knowledge.
Me too :) You are not alone
No you don’t. That’s something to be proud about
Too late.l, I used the last 5 minutes to do it already. :)
I knew several Taylor Swift songs from the radio, but didn't think more of them but "the usual generic pop music" that normally leads to me changing the station immediatly (I expected this). I don't think I will recognize her the next time I hear her.
I also knew some Kanye West songs and I even liked some of them (I honestly didn't expect this). I somehow don't want to like his music though, saw too much about him on Twitter and here).
Kanye had an absolutely killer music career before he went off the rails
He may have always been a little crazy but the man can write a song, I gotta hand him that, no matter what I think of his personal or political life
The College Dropout is one of the few albums where you just push play & listen to the whole thing.
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I wish I couldn't, I needa stop listening to the radio, haha for the occasional song I enjoy on there, theres so many that are like torture
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The need coming from the swifties here real.
She should put him on the wall in the downstairs toilet.
If dictaster tRump gets elected, it won't be long before she'll be able to buy him
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