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 am so mad at my boss right now. I'm practically a wage slave...I've been working at least 10 years in my industry, and someone less experienced than me got a promotion."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Wage slavery is used to criticize labor explotation"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yeah, and I'm definitely being exploited at my current job. I work 60-hour weeks, and I haven't had a decent raise in 4 years. "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "It generally means that there is an unequal balance of power between the labor and the business owners.  Sounds like that applies in your situation"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Yup, pretty much sounds on point. They need to do something to stop stuff like this from happening."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "They might be violating US Labor Law.  It oversees to the rights of employees in the United States"}, {"role": "user", "content": "Is there any sort of relief that I can get under the labor laws?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Well the basic premise is too fix the unequal balance of power between employees and their employers.  "}]