• mojo_raisin@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Not the same person but the answer is non-biological coercion of labor even if that’s not the way it’s often defined. If one lives in a system where they are compelled to sell their labor to survive so that someone can skim value from their labor this is a form of slavery.

    • dandelion@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      8 months ago

      I wonder what you mean by non-biological here, why is that a helpful distinction?

      I don’t see why we couldn’t think of human coercion of other humans isn’t “biological” in some sense, so I also don’t understand what distinction exactly you are making with “non-biological”, but I might just be a bit slow today.

      Still, I agree with you that coercion seems central to the idea of slavery.