Sat. 12/07/14 16:08 EDT
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After doing so, I can see no meaningful difference, vis-à-vis the question, between that picture, and our current reality, hence my (unanswered) question “At what point does being forcefully deprived of one’s income, on a regular, institutional basis, become “real” slavery?”
Either one answers the question by providing some point, or one answers the question by saying “There is no point, it’s all ‘real’ slavery.”
In the first case, it’s incumbent on the questioner to explain
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How and why the two categories of slavery (i.e. “real” and “other”) created by this point are meaningfully different, and more specifically,
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Why the question is only asked with respect to one category, and not the other.
In the second case, one realizes that all productive labor, since it is taxed, is slave labor, and the question can be simplified to:
“Is it moral to buy goods?”