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I also see alot of US workers as wage slaves. Paying rent seems a form of indenture to me.The term Landlord is fuedal. Education is compulsory and geared (despite the efforts of many caring teachers who don't choose curricula) to training obediant workers who will produce on schedule and accept forced compettitive hierarchy.The cognitive dissonance between this and true liberty is quite stark ,in my view.I'm not convinced that sitting in one spot indoors doing toxic industrial production is necessarily a step up from fuedal farm work,which does allow people contact w/ nature and good exercise,but having no first hand experience ,I can't tell what Chinese workers think. China is poised to dominate the world economy,and the sort of rising level of expectation that marked US economy in the 20th century is the likely course.Hard to tell if Chinese workers will fight for better conditions and rewards ,but the prospect of Bigger, Better, More is sure to motivate them as disciplined workers in a way the US has outgrown,and Japan is outgrowing.Seems like it doesn't take many generations of consumer goods overload to wipe much of the memory of hundreds of generations of abject serfdom from the collective "consciousness"