@star@matildalove in europe it probably is a meh thing to say, but in the us working conditions are oftentimes much worse, it's not that far fetched considering people get barely enough for food, rent and fuel for the car (good luck not owning a car in the us)
in other places it's even worse, it's straight up slave labor
@hazel@matildalove It feels weird to me to call anything but slavery "slavery", for the same reason that it feels weird to me to call anything but the holocaust "the holocaust". I am scared that it could water down from the fact that these historic events were uniquely unspeakable horrors, by intermingling different things with them. And as a white person I am personally just extremely careful about the term "slavery" in particular. In my daily life, the slave trade and its after effects barely influence me personally. It feels wrong to me to then use this word and associate it with things that are also very bad, but not this, because I don't feel I would have the right to do so.