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[-] 1984 139 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

You can't buy people anymore but you can buy most of their awake hours. It's called a job.

People sell those hours because they have to. It's called a salary.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 76 points 5 months ago

You misspelled "wage slavery"

[-] tryptaminev@feddit.de 13 points 5 months ago

No no, they work for each other in exchange for money, which they use to buy goods...

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[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Wait so could I hire some suckers to do my hours so I could keep my salary and hours?

[-] metaStatic@kbin.social 38 points 5 months ago

this guy has figured out capitalism

[-] jopepa@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

Keep it down what if they start organizing?

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[-] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 15 points 5 months ago

Wealthy people don't buy things, they buy time - other people's time.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 98 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I will allow someone to buy me, but like software you won't "own" me. You will just be liscencing me and, at any time, I may revoke your access to myself.

[-] General_Shenanigans@lemmy.world 57 points 4 months ago

I, too, have a job

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 21 points 5 months ago

Is abduction piracy in this case?

[-] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 15 points 4 months ago

If licensing people isn’t slavery,
then abduction isn’t kidnapping

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[-] Godnroc@lemmy.world 14 points 5 months ago

Sounds like dating!

[-] calavera@lemm.ee 9 points 4 months ago

And they can just use you on the terms which are described in your EULA

[-] son_named_bort@lemmy.world 83 points 5 months ago

Well no, she can't buy Kanye. He's not a Supreme Court Justice.

[-] hydrospanner@lemmy.world 37 points 5 months ago
[-] AnarchoSnowPlow@midwest.social 29 points 5 months ago

Since we're already destroying institutions we might as well have some fun with it. I don't think there's any reason he couldn't be a supreme court justice.

Expand the Supreme Court and add Kanye, King Charles, and Elmo. At least that shit will be entertaining.

"But Elmo wants to know why policemen don't have an obligation to intervene to protect the public."

[-] AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 17 points 5 months ago

"Elmo is a bit confused. Why did Elmo learn to share, when Elon clearly doesn't?"

[-] whoisearth@lemmy.ca 8 points 5 months ago

"some of Elmos best friends are black people" lol

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[-] catsarebadpeople@sh.itjust.works 55 points 5 months ago

What's really important is that it's impossible not to be a bad person and a billionaire. I like her music but being a billionaire means that she is an enemy of society. Period

[-] charonn0@startrek.website 8 points 4 months ago

"One cannot reign innocently... Every king is a rebel and a usurper."

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[-] Thedogspaw@midwest.social 33 points 4 months ago

Actually slavery is still legal in the United States as a form of legal punishment when legally convicted so she just needs to wait for a jury of his peers to convict him and a judge to Sentence him then she would probably need to pay the state

[-] Everythingispenguins@lemmy.world 15 points 4 months ago

So your saying all Tay Tay has to do is get into the private prison game and then she can own people?

[-] jcg@halubilo.social 21 points 4 months ago

She can't "own" people, don't be ridiculous now. She can only compel them with violence into servitude and extract the fruits of their labor. But ownership? That's messed up.

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[-] Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 25 points 5 months ago

@TSwiftFTC? Is this a two-topic account about Taylor Swift and the Federal Trade Commission? 🤔

[-] S_204@lemm.ee 16 points 5 months ago

Her impact on the economy now has its own government agency.

[-] Adulated_Aspersion@lemmy.world 24 points 4 months ago

She COULD purchase Jay-Z, though.

He said "I'm not a businessman, I'm a business, man"

[-] postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 18 points 4 months ago

Tbf, Texas was notoriously slow on this

[-] menemen@lemmy.world 17 points 4 months ago

I couldn't name nor recognize a single song from either of them. Shit, I need to improve my mainstream media knowledge.

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[-] JoShmoe@ani.social 13 points 5 months ago

The need coming from the swifties here real.

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