i have 10 years experience in our industry , yet she gets promoted.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Wage slavery is a pejorative term used to draw an analogy between slavery and wage labor by focusing on similarities between owning and renting a person. It is usually used to refer to a situation where a person's livelihood depends on wages or a salary, especially when the dependence is total and immediate. The term \"wage slavery\" has been used to criticize exploitation of labour and social stratification, with the former seen primarily as unequal bargaining power between labor and capital (particularly when workers are paid comparatively low wages, e.g. in sweatshops), and the latter as a lack of workers' self-management, fulfilling job choices, and leisure in an economy. The criticism of social stratification covers a wider range of employment choices bound by the pressures of a hierarchical society to perform otherwise unfulfilling work that deprives humans of their \"species character\" not only under threat of starvation or poverty, but also of social stigma and status diminution. Similarities between wage labor and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome. With the advent of the industrial revolution, thinkers such as Proudhon and Marx elaborated the comparison between wage labor and slavery, while Luddites emphasized the dehumanization brought about by machines.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I've been with my company for ten years but someone else got my promotion. That's messed up."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It certainly is. Wage slavery is not a pleasant thing to experience. Your livelihood depends on your wages and job."}, {"role": "user", "content": "Exactly! I told my boss that and he didn't care. I can't afford to live on what I make now! I haven't had a raise in 5 years!"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It's exploitation of labor. With unions being gutted, bargaining power between management and workers has become unequal."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I wish we had a union where I work. Maybe I could check into joining one."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "The whole point of unions is to eradicate the inequality of bargaining between the concerned parties, especially as regards corporations."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That's just what we need at my workplace. It seems like we just keep missing out on more and more."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "You're not alone, unfortunately. The concept of wage labor and slave labor goes back as far as Cicero in Ancient Rome!"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Oh wow, I didn't know that! So that makes me feel a little bit better about it I guess since there's probably been billions upon billions of people who have went through the same thing I'm going through."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Absolutely, and there's disagreement on what has dehumanized the work place. Many, Many years ago some thinkers compared wage slavery and labor. Whereas others blamed dehumanization with the advent of machines! Sound familiar??"}]