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I was watching one of the new star wars shows with my kids and the villain basically says he’s going to enslave the people of a world. And I thought, how is it that we recognize that as evil but once you put a wage into place we behave as though there is a meaningful choice?
The introduction of a wage serves primarily to sanitise coercion. When the only alternative to accepting a wage is starvation or homelessness, the concept of a meaningful choice evaporates.
This is a perfect example of the architecture of obedience. By institutionalising exploitation and framing it within the language of contracts and economics, the ruling class successfully rebrands subjugation as voluntary participation. The underlying threat of ruin remains constant, it is just obfuscated by the structural design of the economy.
We are conditioned to recognise overt physical force as tyranny, yet we accept systemic economic violence as the natural order of the world.
I just wish more people understood that.
Most actually understand it. They have simply been conditioned by religion, culture, and politics to accept it. We are trained to vie for the zenith and to believe that stepping on others to achieve it is acceptable. Society conditions people so thoroughly that pointing out the wrongs of the elite is quickly dismissed as mere envy.
A friend often remarks when politicians steal from the commons, "If it was us, we would do the same." That plural pronoun is crucial. The majority project their own moral bankruptcy onto the rest of the species, refusing to accept that not everyone is equally vile. This psychological conditioning keeps them functioning as willing victims who operate under the assumption that they will eventually get their turn to be the oppressors.