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  • The main purpose in commercial Huichol art is to enable at least some of the people to retain their language, religion, and customs by continuing and expanding traditional art forms as an alternative to wage-slavery in the outside world.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four 2009

  • The main purpose in commercial Huichol art is to enable at least some of the people to retain their language, religion, and customs by continuing and expanding traditional art forms as an alternative to wage-slavery in the outside world.

    Huichol art, a matter of survival: Part Four 2009

  • Because this gratifying sensation of pseudo-accomplishment comes without the stress of substantive commitment and concern it can fast become a sinkhole ultimately just as alienating as wage-slavery.

    Stress, Labor & Play 2010

  • Second, as any hard-working person who has a child with asthma or a spouse who is partially disabled can tell you, the lack of available, affordable and portable health insurance leads to "wage-slavery."

    Can't We All Be Friends? 2008

  • But you see, even wage-slavery has gotten to be too much.

    The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers 2009

  • That's also exactly what wage-slavery is all about.

    The Car Czar's plan to gut America's autoworkers 2009

  • Or, do you also buy into this “absentee ownership” socialism, the workers-own-the-factories, wage-slavery nonsense?

    Three notes for the critics of the critics of apologists for Wal-Mart 2009

  • "I believe woman is enslaved ... by sex conventions, by motherhood and its present necessary childrearing, by wage-slavery, by middle-class morality," she wrote in the first issue.

    Freedom From Conventions 2008

  • We can defeat enslavement by global financial crime if we all can agree on what their crimes have been, and what those crimes have cost us, and if we can disconnect from their programmed deceit and move as one mass, in every city and village in united opposition to the debt slavery, wage-slavery, monopoly-slavery, dumb-down slavery, rigged-election slavery, monetary slavery systems that are our chains.

    OpEdNews - Quicklink: Dick Eastman: Expose The Criminals Before They Kill You 2008

  • For the most part, however, Socialist reformers have been blind altogether to the wage-slavery of Capitalism, and have talked only of its exploitation of the worker.

    Servility or Freedom? 2008

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