So how much of our labor do we actually get to keep?
Frederick Douglass is probably the 2nd most famous slave behind Harriet Tubman (since he was just an Establishment propagandist and she both had a vagina and was an Intelligence agent). In his writings, one of his big complaints from the time he was a slave--whoa! an "enslaved person"--whoa! a "person identifying as temporarily experiencing slavery"--had to do with his side hustles. Yes, slaves were allowed to have side hustles, but that's not the plot twist.
Fred did something like play the violin, so he gigged at local weddings and dances or whatever. But when he came back, Massa raked off some of his earnings. A sort of a "tax", if you will. He found this practice outrageous.
If only old Freddie have lived to see our beautiful Neo-Liberal Paradise with freedom for all!
Frederick Douglass is probably the 2nd most famous slave behind Harriet Tubman (since he was just an Establishment propagandist and she both had a vagina and was an Intelligence agent). In his writings, one of his big complaints from the time he was a slave--whoa! an "enslaved person"--whoa! a "person identifying as temporarily experiencing slavery"--had to do with his side hustles. Yes, slaves were allowed to have side hustles, but that's not the plot twist.
Fred did something like play the violin, so he gigged at local weddings and dances or whatever. But when he came back, Massa raked off some of his earnings. A sort of a "tax", if you will. He found this practice outrageous.
If only old Freddie have lived to see our beautiful Neo-Liberal Paradise with freedom for all!