Originally Posted by
contrails12
saying it’s slavery is hyperbolic to the extreme and disrespectful to slaves past and present. It’s not hard to understand
I am sorry you found that disrespectful, but you seem to be confused. There are varying degrees of slavery, the slave in ancient Athens was likely better off than the slave in the South. Yet, they were both still slaves.
One of the key concepts in slavery is that owning the person you own the fruit of their labor, and there is no choice in the taking of that labor (it is not a mutually agreed to arrangement). If the slave master wishes to allow the slave a choice in work and to keep some of the fruit of that labor, the person is still a slave. In terms of an income tax, the government lays first claim to the whole of your income, and then allows you to keep a portion of it. In both cases there is no choice for person whose labor is being exploited.