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05/09/22
16:21
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Originally posted by nursery:
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I've seen a few of those happy slaves today. I made a contribution to their slavery as i paid for my Chinese Honey King Prawns. I made a contribution to their double time pay rate for working on a Sunday. I didn't see any whips or chains either. As someone who started work at 9, delivering milk in a horse and cart before and after school and 7 days a week, I was happy to end up with a few pence to get the odd treat and get to the "pictures" on a Saturday night. Then leaving school for a full time job at15. Being paid twenty seven and sixpence for a five and a half day week with my mother getting the pound and I had the seven and six was acceptable. Later on I farmed which was seven days a week and few holidays. Then ran my own businesses where i was on the job well before the paid staff and long after they left was acceptable. Now I wonder who is/was really the slave. Is it the employer or the employee.
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So really, you fundamentally acknowledge the problem. Too many Australians expect more out of life than wage slavery (Many have noticed the reality that there can only be ONE boss per however many employees, so no matter how hard you work.. you're not getting ahead...) and so we need to import a bunch of people for whom this seems a great deal