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What are you talking about?

> In a broader sense, however, the word slavery may also refer to any situation in which an individual is de facto forced to work against their own will.

Seems like what they were saying fits well with this.

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Well then we're all slaves to our stomachs because if we don't work, we don't eat, we don't eat, we die.

As facetious as this comment is, this is exactly why it's problematic to broaden the definition of slavery.

If prisoners are slaves, then it isn't that far a leap to the concept of wage slavery or being enslaved to nature. But please note that I am not the first post in this thread to use a definition that disagrees from the one you are suggesting.

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