The lash is now interest payments, the overseer a central banker, and the auction block a labor market where we bid for the right to sell our time. The mechanics have changed, but the injustice remains: work extracted, dignity crushed, and time vanished. It may not resemble the slave markets of history; the instruments have changed, yet the moral crime endures, just as murder is murder, whatever the weapon used.

— Neal Flesher, Modern Chains (Chapter 1)

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