• CodexArcanum@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Moreover, employers used to incentivise employees to work by providing free food and sometimes free lodging. [In exchange for labor]

    Yes, the historical name for providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery, though sometimes the ruling class dresses it up in laws and calls it serfdom or indentured servitude.

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      24 hours ago

      In the example he provides, they were compensated for their work and had homes they could go back to.

      You have to remember that the plague successively wiped out a third of Europe. Employers were practically begging people to come to work

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      If “providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery”, then isn’t providing currency in exchange for a person’s coerced labor slavery?