Say you also had the choice to pick a square of land, build a hut and grow your food on it, now that would at least grant you some degree of freedom, but since it isn't possible you are forced to work for one of these factories or starve. Relocate? Where? With which money? Just to become homeless somewhere else?
I don't know how else to call this if not some form of slavery. You are not threatened with violence, but try to strike and see what happens.
It is clear that this system is based on the exploitation of a large workforce that sits at the bottom of the social pyramid. Our society would literally collapse if everyone was able to escape wage slavery at once.
> It is clear that this system...
Yes, and that is where Chat-GPT and the newer generation AI's come in. Not on the workers side, but still escaping wage slavery all the same.