iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause millions in damages

Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by crowf on Monday December 21, 2020 @09:49AM (#25495377)

as someone who has spoken English from ~2 years old, I have never heard that definition. Slavery has always been a person who was forever forced to do what their master told them to. Are interns/apprentices slaves? After all, they work for a day for even less than a day's worth of food.

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Re:iPhone factory workers say they haven’t been paid, cause ... by learnstats2 on Monday December 21, 2020 @05:04PM (#25500176)

There is a lengthy wikipedia page on "wage slavery", which has a long history, even if it is not part of the currently accepted definition of slavery. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

"Similarities between wage labour and slavery were noted as early as Cicero in Ancient Rome, such as in De Officiis."

If you need the wage from your labour to feed and house yourself, such that you are completely dependent on your employer, how is that functionally different to slavery?

Unpaid internships are increasingly considered immoral for reasons that you identify - many people literally cannot afford to take such an internship, so cannot gain this experience.

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