@Phil @adamgurri yes. in the Nordics too. people literally get away with quitting and living off the dole. they’ll be harassed a bit by well-meaning helpers, but they won’t be homeless or hungry.

yet they don’t. we don’t need the whip hand of immiseration to have a decent society. you choose to work even though you don’t have to, even though you’d not be poor if you didn’t. that is far from slavery. it is choice. in the Nordics taxes are high but almost everyone chooses work. 1/

@Phil @adamgurri slaves are the people for whom, if they lose their job or don’t accept a job no matter how much they detest it or feel like its terms are unfair, will lose their homes, be short of food, have no health care, watch their children suffer. and we have a lot of slaves in the US, unfortunately. but you are not among them. (thank goodness!) /fin