On a vaguely related note but still shows how the World works. Back in 1992, my Eastern European computer science teacher told us a story. He used to work as a programmer, doing "ERP" software for communist companies (state-owned, of course). The software would run on machines featuring Z80 CPU with CP/M operating system. Anyhow after the change of regime they got 386 PCs and rewrote the software to run on them. The performance gain was staggering but ... users (directors of said companies) complained. The software would cost a lot but seemengly would not "work hard" for it. On the old machines it would take a lot of time to process anything, it was obvious the software was "working hard". On the PCs the same operation which would take minutes or hours would complete instantly. Obviously the job was too easy and thus much overpriced.
Faced with this serious problem impacting sales, the programmers thought about it and eventually found a solution. They added... SLEEP instructions. All over the code in key points, sleep(seconds), calibrated so the response time was about the same as on ye olde CP/Me machines.
Customer reaction: completely satisfied.
... I think we can draw some conclusions on the universality of human stupidity and incentives to act that way.
This shows what they failed to consider in those optimistic views of the 1930s like John Maynard Keynes who predicted that his grandkids would work just 15 hours a week.
Slaves don't trade productivity for their lives, they trade time.
No matter how many trillions of times more productive human activities will become, slaves's time will still belong to the masters and very little of their life will belong to them.
So using the "wage slave" rethoric is punished now by the Thought Police. Happy happy thoughts and be greatful for the opportunity to trade our lives for a measly pay working for the man.
"Slavery" is a powerful word, understood universally, with high chances of proving the point and making an impact when used.
Your censorship of it's usage may have been done on good intentions but the results are nefarious.
Does it seem to you that we are living in some Nirvana / restored Heaven Of Humanity? Take a look at this, wage slavery makes 25% of work classification: https://www.nirandfar.com/wage-slaves/
Confining the word "slave" to some well-in-the-past primitive dawn of humanity and punishing us for using it to depict the deplorable state of humanity today does nothing for improving said state and makes you in the best case one of the "useful idiots" of the establishment ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot ).
How do you define a "slave"? Think of this definition: "a slave is any person that trades their time in exchange for the right to live". Does it seem to you that Elon Musk is a slave? How bout someone working on a computer 1,000,000 times more powerful than 30 years ago and going through even more drudgery with less stability and guarantee of making a living out of the productivity increase?
Is it really the best that civilization can throw at the versatility and capability of the human mind? Fixing bugs in the 100'th million line of crap framework code and the perspective of being replaced by a statistical model? That's your glorious "non slavery" world you censor from using?
Faced with this serious problem impacting sales, the programmers thought about it and eventually found a solution. They added... SLEEP instructions. All over the code in key points, sleep(seconds), calibrated so the response time was about the same as on ye olde CP/Me machines.
Customer reaction: completely satisfied.
... I think we can draw some conclusions on the universality of human stupidity and incentives to act that way.