I dont see the distinction you make between slavery and wage slavery. Why is it so clear to you that the first one was detrimental to the economy , and the second one isnt?
People flipping burguers could be doing something a lot more producting than flipping burguers as well.
Also in terms of poorer economy, I think we dont see eye to eye on the definition of it, because if you consider the loss of wage slavery work as a poorer economy, you should also see that for old fashioned slavery.
The colliseums closed after there were no slave-gladiators, so abolishing slaves did contribute to a poorer economy.
Continuing on that, this is why I found that phrase upsetting: "A great deal of the 'wage slave' jobs are also where a lot of the basic value of the economy is coming from"
If we admit to ourselves collectively that our economy functions thanks to people that have little or no options, there is a very small difference than running a place with slaves.
In the form of a question, if you had a cotton farm that could only work because you had slaves you could work to death, and slaves are taken away from you and you go broke, what is your feeling about that business?
And if you have a burguer joint and it only works because you have people that are very cheap to hire to cook the burguers and clean the place up, and once they want higher salaries you would go broke, what is your feeling about that business?
People flipping burguers could be doing something a lot more producting than flipping burguers as well.
Also in terms of poorer economy, I think we dont see eye to eye on the definition of it, because if you consider the loss of wage slavery work as a poorer economy, you should also see that for old fashioned slavery. The colliseums closed after there were no slave-gladiators, so abolishing slaves did contribute to a poorer economy.
Continuing on that, this is why I found that phrase upsetting: "A great deal of the 'wage slave' jobs are also where a lot of the basic value of the economy is coming from"
If we admit to ourselves collectively that our economy functions thanks to people that have little or no options, there is a very small difference than running a place with slaves.
In the form of a question, if you had a cotton farm that could only work because you had slaves you could work to death, and slaves are taken away from you and you go broke, what is your feeling about that business?
And if you have a burguer joint and it only works because you have people that are very cheap to hire to cook the burguers and clean the place up, and once they want higher salaries you would go broke, what is your feeling about that business?