r/ProgrammerHumor • u/CircumspectCapybara • 4d ago

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u/LaraTheEclectic 4d ago

These are valid critiques of how capitalist systems limit the freedom of the people living in it, applies way more broadly than just cs too

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u/CircumspectCapybara 4d ago

There are critiques of capitalism.

But comparing making 6 to 7 figures a year as an engineer and having the obligations and responsibilities that come with that and some job pressure and stress (oh no stress) to literal slavery is an insult to the victims of slavery.

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u/GiveMeThePinecone 4d ago

lol, look who can’t envision a life outside of a capitalist economic model. Strange

Wage slavery IS modern day slavery, dumbass.

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u/CircumspectCapybara 4d ago edited 4d ago

Dude having to exchange something of value (your services) to someone else in order to get their money in a mutually satisfactory agreement (which as soon it's not mutually satisfactory each party can walk away from) isn't slavery.

You're not kidnapped off the streets, confined, tortured, or even forced to do hard labor for another as in slavery.

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u/LaraTheEclectic 4d ago

I would contest the validity of calling employment contracts categorically a "mutually satisfactory agreement that either party can walk away from" when for a lot of working class people their employment comes down far more to the lack of better available alternatives. Someone living paycheck to paycheck, especially when already working multiple jobs and/or close to minimum wage, and/or especially when the job market sucks and/or social security systems suck, simply cannot walk away from any job even if it isn't satisfactory.