Who Gets It?

Slaves make wealth
master gets it
surfs make wealth
lord gets it
employees make wealth
employer gets it
wealth to our ‘betters’

chattel slave sold
once and for all
miserable existence
relatively secure
master’s interest
little or no
competition

wage-slave sells
himself daily hourly
no secure existence
only class status
assured in constant
competition
with all its vagaries

wage-slaves or serfs
or chattel slaves
working classes barely
surviving from ancient
Egypt Greece and
Rome to Britania
to the present

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