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Wage Slave: The typical person in modern societies who has little real autonomy and must work to survive until old age when they hope to access government-controlled pensions and retirement savings. Their alternatives are to become financially-dependent on someone else or homeless or end up in prison.

Wage Slavery - The Illusion of Freedom (and how to end it)









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