{"id":6107,"date":"2015-03-01T07:35:59","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6107"},"modified":"2015-03-01T07:35:59","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T12:35:59","slug":"most-americans-are-slaves-and-they-dont-even-know-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6107","title":{"rendered":"Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don\u2019t Even Know It"},"content":{"rendered":"

Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don\u2019t Even Know It<\/a><\/h3>\n

Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they \u201cmust\u201d do.\u00a0 These days, we don\u2019t like to think of ourselves as \u201cservants\u201d or \u201cslaves\u201d, but that is what the vast majority of us are.\u00a0 It is just that the mechanisms of our enslavement have become much more sophisticated over time.\u00a0 It has been said that the borrower is the servant of the lender, and most of us start going into debt very early into our adult years.\u00a0 In fact, those that go to college to \u201cget an education<\/a>\u201d are likely to enter the \u201creal world\u201d with a staggering amount of debt.\u00a0 And of course that is just the beginning of the debt accumulation.\u00a0 Today, when you add up all mortgage debt, all credit card debt and all student loan debt, the average American household is carrying a grand total of\u00a0203,163 dollars<\/a>\u00a0of debt.\u00a0 Overall, American households are\u00a0more than 11 trillion dollars in debt<\/a>\u00a0at this point.\u00a0 And even though most Americans don\u2019t realize this, over the course of our lifetimes the amount of money that we will repay on our debts is far greater than the amount that we originally borrowed.\u00a0 In fact, when it comes to credit card debt you can easily end up repaying several times the amount of money that you originally borrowed.\u00a0 So we work our fingers to the bone to pay off these debts, and the vast majority of us are not even working for ourselves.\u00a0 Instead, our work makes the businesses that other people own more profitable.\u00a0 So if we spend the best years of our lives building businesses for others, servicing debts that we owe to others and making others wealthier, what does that make us?<\/p>\n

In 2015, the words \u201cservant\u201d and \u201cslave\u201d have very negative connotations, and we typically don\u2019t use them very much.<\/p>\n

Instead, we use words like \u201cemployee\u201d because they make us feel so much better.<\/p>\n

But is there really that much of a difference?<\/p>\n

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Most Americans Are Slaves And They Don\u2019t Even Know It Most Americans spend their lives working for others, paying off debts to others and performing tasks that others tell them that they \u201cmust\u201d do.\u00a0 These days, we don\u2019t like to think of ourselves as \u201cservants\u201d or \u201cslaves\u201d, but that is what the vast majority of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[63,195,488,536,3837,3836,731],"class_list":["post-6107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-banks","tag-debt","tag-loans","tag-money","tag-servant","tag-slave","tag-slavery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6108,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6107\/revisions\/6108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}