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zillah975 ([personal profile] zillah975) wrote in [community profile] whatwekeep 2008-10-21 04:01 am (UTC)

Eventually, a tipping point will be reached where slaves dramatically outnumber free people

Chiming in late. This speaks to something I've been thinking about for a few days, which is that it seems like the existence of corporate slaves would make this a self-perpetuating system. If slave labor weren't cheaper, corporations wouldn't use it; since it's cheaper, they'll prefer it to the exclusion of non-slave labor. It seems like this would create greater and greater unemployment and thus a larger and larger pool of people dropping into poverty and eventually slavery. So what we'll finally have is a system of the very rich and their slaves...except, then, who buys the products that keep the rich rich and the corporations producing?

This may just be a failure of imagination on my part, but it seems like our consumer culture relies on a large middle class with enough disposable income to perpetuate our consumer culture.

Erm.

It's possible that I should go to bed, I'm not sure I'm thinking clearly.

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