M Alger with his usual aplomb gets it so right that I cannot add to it in any way

Go. Read the wholw thing.

Now, I have to say, nothing could nail the subject down harder and more solidly.

For years plantation owners made their living (ostensibly) on the backs of slave laborers- though the idea that this was anything other than business was asinine. Those plantation owners were buying machinery, and that’s all they thought of it, period.

Now, we’re all wage slaves, working for an ever decreasing bite of the labor of our own hands and minds. And no abolitionists are coming our way to liberate us. And at no point will we ever vote our way clear of our slavery. At best the taxes we pay are golden handcuffs, at worst, iron stocks.