Good to see you too, Quincy.
You will define slavery as one human owning another, most likely.
Slavery also may be defined as being forced by (name your favorite Government entity) someone or some 'body' to buy or purchase something that the other person doesn't want to buy. Not only that, but the person forcing the slave to buy something that he doesn't want to buy: can be fined thousands of dollars: The person forcing the slave to buy that which he doesn't want to buy also controls the price at which its bought and regulates how much that person can benefit from the use of that he was just forced to purchase: In some cases, unhealthy slaves can and are refused the complete service they were forced to buy and were guaranteed to benefit from: In many cases, the slave has no choice which help he may get even if he capitulates, buys the Slaveowner controlled service, and seeks treatment. The Slaveowner holds all the cards. He "locks" the slaves up in this prison until they are dead, and in many cases, sells the slave's homes to reimburse the Slaveowner for the initial service the slave never wanted but was forced to buy in the first place.
The Slaveowner gets away with all of this because he changed the rules for it to be implemented, and then one man "a supreme" Slave owner, makes certain that four other supreme Slave owners out of 350 million free people agree that slavery is indeed codified and just.
Yes, some of the slaves are either too ignorant or just don't plain care to become a slave, as long as the Slaveowner is good to them, helps them with a place to live, food to eat, clothes to wear, a cell phone. It all sounds so good. How can they resist? This slavery is for their own good, like seat belts and driver's licenses. It's all good. The Slaveowner is colorblind. He doesn't care if the slave is black or white or yellow or red, just so long as they become slaves to his plantation.
He is such a benevolent Slaveowner that how could anyone resist his charms? He doesn't use a whip or stick to beat his slaves. His slaves don't even have to call him Master.
And when the Slaveowner needs more production from his slaves, he raises the price to live on the plantation saying that some of the slaves aren't pulling their fair share out in the fields, and that the other slaves are gonna' have to buck up and take more on.
This mandate excites the slaves who do less to do even less than before which causes the Slaveowner to spend more to keep up the pretense of benevolence so the slaves don't rise up and rebel because they aren't getting what they thought their slavery represented.
In case some slaves do rise up and complain of the burden, watch the reaction of the Slaveowner and his porch slaves and house slaves who have it better than the slaves out in the fields.
To top this all off, the Slaveowner isn't even required to use the same service the slaves are required to purchase. He is exempt from his own edicts. And, the Slaveowner uses the slave's money to buy his own brand independent product because he is the one who came up with the idea of slavery in the first place. Not only that, he opens his borders so that other people can become slaves too. They flock in droves to the Slaveowners siren call. They already work for little in their own slaveowner's fields. Surely this Slaveowner will treat them better.
And if the slaves backs begin to break under the burden of the Slaveowner's benevolence, the Slaveowner tells them that the Corporations are at fault for cheating and laying them off or only working them part time.
All the while, wannabe Slaveowners and the Slaveowner of this plantation wine and dine with the corporate dudes, fly free on their jets, make speeches for gaudy amounts of money, all the while pretending to be as pure as the driven snow and collecting even more money to make their plantation stronger, just in case of insurrection.
And in the end, when nothing more can be extracted from the slaves, and there is nothing left to pay or give to the slaves who overwhelm the plantation, and when the service the slaves thought they were forced to purchase no longer exists, the slaves, in total misery, will look at each other and say: What do we do now?
96 million slaves are out of work in Plantation America, and can't get a job at any price. They've stopped looking. They will continue taking handouts and crumbs until they figure out it was the Slaveowner's fault all along. Too late.
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