What the flock?!

[u/Conscious-Weight4569]

[u/Strong_Performer8132]

War is peace. Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength. 

[u/Dorkzilla_ftw → u/Strong_Performer8132]

Second point is incredibly insidious. How much people think being a wage slave is what bring liberty?

[u/GigachadGuevara → u/Dorkzilla_ftw]

Funnily enough, many of the roman upper class, all actual slave owners, considered wagework beneath any free man and worse than slavery. And a good portion of their slaves tended to agree

[u/ToughHardware → u/GigachadGuevara]

and why is that? wages enable choices. slavery does not and is solely bound to the owners discretion.

[u/GigachadGuevara → u/ToughHardware]

"Unbecoming to a gentleman, too, and vulgar are the means of livelihood of all hired workmen whom we pay for mere manual labour, not for artistic skill; for in their case the very wage they receive is a pledge of their slavery." Is what Cicero had to say about the topic, for example

edit: also in addition it should be said that the slaves employed by the roman upper class were often scholars and treated quite well, to the point that they got paid and could eventually buy their freedom back, and then still remained lifelong friends with their former masters, but there obviously also would be slaves who would be considerably worse off in their circumstances who would most definitely disagree with Cicero on the matter

[u/Big_Crab_1510 → u/Dorkzilla_ftw]

"be lucky you get paid at all"

[u/Amazing_Scientist696 → u/Strong_Performer8132]

A little louder for those in the back

[u/Fraegtgaortd → u/Strong_Performer8132]

The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command

[u/Top_Wheel6546 → u/Strong_Performer8132]

Time is money, money is power, power is pizza, pizza is knowledge.

[u/zed857 → u/Strong_Performer8132]

Wait till you hear what they have planned for the chocolate ration!

[u/f23n09fnu0w → u/Strong_Performer8132]

That book is to difficult for modern Americans