text: do you agree with this?: slavery never ended…. it just changed to 8 hours per day.?   if slavery means "having no control over one's life," then i think employees -- especially those who work at boring, menial jobs -- are slaves.  the really interesting question is, "if you don't know that you are actually slaving every day for shareholders, and that you do it because everyone around you seem to be doing just that, then are you a slave?"