… with religion and sex and TV
And you think you’re so clever and classless and free
But you’re still ******* peasants as far as I can see”
Allowing him a little artistic licence, John Winston Lennon got it about right. We modern wage-workers are just as subjugated as any feudal serf – the difference being that we are coerced not by physical force but by market forces. While the owning class don’t screw us in broad daylight with openly exploitative forced labour, the capitalist wages system lets them achieve the same, if not better, result as any feudal lord – they end up with the loot without having to raise a finger for it.
Free? Us? Yeah, right!
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