MODERN SLAVERY

Freedom is one of the underlying principles you will undoubtedly hear me chirp on about from time to time...in fact it's a constant theme running through everything I do.

The concept of freedom is the ability to make your own choices. Most people think they have freedom within the democracy we live, but that is simply a delusion. If  for a moment we trundle back to Roman times whenever that actually was, I'm reliably informed that slavery was a common practice. There were those who owned the businesses and the slaves who carried out the daily tasks of work. So here we have a division in society where some people take care of others by paying for all their heating, food, house etc etc. Slaves got maybe a day off and sometimes even a holiday in the year, but on the whole were well looked after.

At some point in history when slavery got a bad name, and slaves wanted to be free, some bright spark came up with the idea of rather than having to pay for all of the slaves living necessities, it would be a better idea to delegate to the slaves the job of administering their own payments. So they gave them a wage. Just enough to pay for everything but never enough to get out of the work situation. They still did the same job, still worked the same hours and got a day off once a week as well as a holiday once year, but now as they thought themselves free they were much happier until the responsibility of running their own lives became apparent. 

Responsibility and making decisions were never liked by salves but they had to have the illusion they could make their own choices even though very few were actually given to them. They were encouraged into a life of domestic subservience by getting married producing more slaves and providing for them. Every bit of spare cash on the other hand would have be mopped up by the state to make sure they never really  got anywhere, spending their lives on the grindstone looking forward to days off given by their owners.. sorry employers as well as yearly holidays granted, followed a short retirement before a bit of an eternal rest. Just maybe if you are a good slave you might get a good afterlife for working so hard in this one to keep the system going.

Just a theory...but what's the difference between slavery and democracy..the facility to vote for someone who will always keep things the same, but tell you change is on the way....