Wage Slavery!

Wage Slavery!
The first articulate description of wage slavery was perhaps made by Simon Linguet in 1763:

"The slave was precious to his master because of the money he had cost him… They were worth
at least as much as they could be sold for in the market… It is the impossibility of living
by any other means that compels our farm labourers to till the soil whose fruits they will not eat…
It is want that compels them to go down on their knees to the rich man in order to get from him permission to enrich him… what effective gain has the suppression of slavery brought him?
He is free, you say. Ah! That is his misfortune… These men… [have] the most terrible,
the most imperious of masters, that is, need.
They must therefore find someone to hire them, or die of hunger.
Is that to be free?"