Moreover, employers used to incentivise employees to work by providing free food and sometimes free lodging. [In exchange for labor]
Yes, the historical name for providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery, though sometimes the ruling class dresses it up in laws and calls it serfdom or indentured servitude.
If “providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery”, then isn’t providing currency in exchange for a person’s coerced labor slavery?
Yes, the historical name for providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery, though sometimes the ruling class dresses it up in laws and calls it serfdom or indentured servitude.
If “providing free food and shelter in exchange for a person’s coerced labor is slavery”, then isn’t providing currency in exchange for a person’s coerced labor slavery?
Yes, wage slavery. /j
In the example he provides, they were compensated for their work and had homes they could go back to.
You have to remember that the plague successively wiped out a third of Europe. Employers were practically begging people to come to work