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As for slave labor for yourself: it still is. Peer pressurized slave labor is still slave labor

Not only is this factually incorrect, it is offensive to those suffering in real, actual slavery.

This the same reasoning that objects to the use of the term "wage slavery"

Abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison stated that the use of the term "wage slavery" (in a time when chattel slavery was still common) was an "abuse of language."[25] Most abolitionists believed that wage workers were "neither wronged nor oppressed".[26] Former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass described his elation when he took a paying job, declaring that "Now I am my own master." According to Douglass, wage labor did not represent oppression but fair exchange and former slaves for the first time receiving the fruits of their labor

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery



Well, students in school are in real, actual slavery (they realistically can't quit or change school) AND they are often sleep-deprived. Meaning things are not good.

For wage workers it's less obvious but everything which pushes you for continuous putting of more than 40hr/week without correspondingly large financial gain should be discouraged. That number - 40hr/week - is there for a reason.


Well, students in school are in real, actual slavery (they realistically can't quit or change school)

You are seriously saying that people in educational facilities are slaves? I'm unsure if you are trolling or just trying to justify your statements beyond logical limits.

Slavery: the state or condition of being a slave; a civil relationship whereby one person has absolute power over another and controls his life, liberty, and fortune.


Your definition implies that one can't be a slave to a group of people; but in history (e.g. rome) there always were government slaves.

Education is not much different. Children are underage and can't know what's good for them, so we step in and tell them. But if we tell them to sleep less, work more and take some pills for that, it should be a crime.


in history (e.g. rome) there always were government slaves

No they weren't, but I don't see why that matters.




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