LogFAQs > #910939538

You can live, and fairly well in the US at least, working only 20 hours a week or so......and not even at a hard job, literally just standing around and taking orders etc.

Now, yes, you can't do that easily with kids (although there are tons of programs to help with that, and you'll get things like foodstamps and free child care if you apply for it), but even so, that is your choice and responsibility to have children in the first place.

It's also true that it is more expensive to live some places then others, so yes, in some areas you have to work almost full time just to get by with the bare neccesities (if you include a roof over you head in them).

Even so that is still not slavery, or even serfdom, nobody can force you to do things, nobody owns your body, nobody can beat you if you do things wrong and nobody can starve you even after you have worked 12 hour + days.

Even serfs often lived very harsh lives (in some cases worse then slaves as they had no inherant value).

People in the US at least can live lives of luxory and many do, without working AT ALL. Single mothers especially have done so for decades in the past at least, living off the support that is supposed to be for their children.

Renting a room, almost anywhere, or sharing an apartment with friends, can still be extremely cheap. You can do so even in Brooklyn NY if you want with less then $800 a month total expenses (including food/transportation/rent etc).

So no, it's not slavery, not even close.
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