Sentences with phrase «wage slaves»

In Chinese, wage slaves complain of having to «dining on the wind and farting smoke (喝风屙烟 ）.»

A failed teacher in the brutal corporate charter school world where profit is king, children are reduced to being numbers, and teachers are wage slaves forced to bully children becomes the teacher of the year in the traditional public schools where she now teaches.

When a Cleveland file clerk uses his mundane existence as the inspiration for a comic book, he achieves unlikely fame, a berth on the Letterman show, and a following that includes other wage slaves who find daily office life to be as filled with rage and excitement as any action picture.

Parker and Longbaugh are two drifters not cut out to be wage slaves, not quite smart enough or motivated enough to make it big («A pint of your blood can fetch fifty bucks.

He talks about wage slaves, and he talks about the dictatorship of the proletariat.

But that's usually in August, when the wage slaves cash their annual cheques.

They violate health codes, torture animals, pay minimum wages with minimum benefits, prevent workers from unionizing, import plastic crap from China (Walmart), pollute the environment (Tyson), drive once proud poultry farmers into becoming wage slaves (Tyson), sell cheap products with high - profits produces by «modern slaves» in China and other third - world countries (Walmart),... WWJB?

But the liberation of women to be wage slaves just like men was far more bourgeois than bohemian — it certainly wasn't liberation to do your own thing.

From Carlson's view, it was the resulting liberation of lots and lots of women to be wage slaves just like men that struck a decisive blow against the big and stable American family.

It turns out that many of these guinea pigs are now professionals» «people who need money and have a lot of time to spare: the unemployed, college students, contract workers, ex-cons, or young people living on the margins who have decided that testing drugs is better than punching a clock with the wage slaves.»

Wage slaves!

Self - employment is similarly enjoying gains, largely because it allows former wage slaves to become free agents.

Believing that they're «equal» is setting yourself up to remain a wage slave all your life.

Back to work, wage slave!

Tom Forst: White - collar wage slave during the week, take - no - prisoners racer on Sunday.

Quite frankly, I make more than many Trad published and I turned DOWN the trad offers because it would slow down the process of writing, interfere with my contact with the fans, cost me money and essentially make me a low paid wage slave for the «honor» of having someone else utterly control my work.

Face it: if you owe a pile of high interest debt, you're a wage slave.

I am currently receiving around 25 % of the amount I believe myself and my wife need to live reasonably in a lifestyle that is independent from the need to be a wage slave, and this should further increase over the next few years.

Don't be a wage slave.

They'll be candidates for entry - level wage slave jobs at Fortune 500 companies after they graduate.

Honestly, it can get a little monotonous at times (I know, DAD, I'm not a wage slave like you, get over it).

but its a lot more fun than being a wage slave..

Revenge of the Wage Slave — Class Action Overtime Cases, Orange County Lawyer Magazine, Volume 43, No. 11 (November 2001)

I believe every person, even aliens (except in Ontario where aliens apparently aren't persons, even if corporations are) has the inalienable right right to work as an indentured wage slave for inadequate wages in sweatshop conditions in a store on a Rodeo Drive equivalent, so he or she can get a priceless autograph from a celebrity, or an Quebec NDP MP playing hookey from school... ah... Parliament.

otherwise you are a wage slave — or someone else's whore.

This is deeply ingrained into them by their parents and society, you are constantly told to be status quo, do nt rock the boat, be a wage slave, because its safe and secure and therefore by default if you do nt do this exact path, its the opposite, its unsafe, not 100 % known so its not secure and is something to fear.

Credit card companies can pull 20 - 40 % apr regularly from wage slaving consumer over spenders.

There were two career paths from which he could choose: Either get a J - O - B with a big company working in a cubical and becoming a wage slave, or go to work for himself without the «security» (or constraints) of working for someone else.

I don't think there will be a place for my kids in this industry in the future if we continue to make it more capital intensive, other than as a corporate wage slave.

Not exact matches

Not the same for entrepreneurs and wage - slaves, right?

pay them non livable wage, no medical no benefits all so they can keep prices down on products produced in slave labor in counties that hate the united states.

All these tax dodging; slave wage gazillionaire's - the real christians.

1) A slave was bought at a price determined by the number of years he should serve and the minimum wage.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

The cutters collect an agreed - upon wage, but it is so low that it compares with the subsistence food which slaves received to maintain their health.

With the depletion of Mesoamerican workers, largely to disease, cacao production like coffee was often the work of poor wage laborers and African slaves.

Selling to shops is all well and good but your pricing has to be so keen to allow for their 2.4 markup that you can end up slaving away into the wee hours for less than minimum wage.

A fellow - traveler in New York, Thomas Skidmore, soon followed with his own Workingmen's Party of New York, and wrote in his first message to its members that he, too, thought that the great evil was the rise of modern servitude in the form of wage labour: «For he, in all countries is a slave, who must work more for another than that other must work for him.

The rest were corrupt slaves of the corporations who allowed three men to acquire fortunes so vast they could have possessed a small European nation while the wage of their workers was flat and kept them destitute.

Waging war is just one of the habits that ants share with humans: Many species live in large, well - organized societies, and others take slaves, herd aphids like cattle, and raise fungi for food in underground farms.

Wage - slave purgatory in three different flavours is the subject of Seth Gordon's comedy, as his trio of downtrodden leads decide that the only way to break free from remorseless professional abuse is by murdering their respective bosses.

Success vs. selling out debates follow, as do takedowns of corporate exploitation, billionaire bros, mass media, wage - slave labor, the celebrity co-opting of activists, racial strife, pretentious performance art, our viral age and anything else that wanders in to the movie's crosshairs.

They'd don't lie Amazon views authors as little more than slaves to be paid a subsidence wage or less.

Mark Kingwell is a professor in philosophy at the University of Toronto and the author of 16 books including The Wage - Slave's Glossary (Biblioasis).

As an hourly wage - slave I've added the net of my last few pay raises as well as any overtime or bonus money I receive to my mortgage payment.

I'll give you that game development is a remarkable job, and I'll give you that it's a generally privileged career, but «wage - slave»?

I bet you're still sore at the loss of slavery which meant that goods became more expensive because they had to pay their workers a living wage rather than keep slaves...

João José Reis documents in his book, Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia, that these African slaves were waging a jihad to establish an Islamic state in Brazil run by shari'ah laws.

I found high paying jobs so I didn't have to be a slave employee in a college town making nothing but minimum wage.