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Wow, so these yellow badges are sort of the plantation slave labor then?

Amazing to hear that Google has a strict caste system.

edit: wow, at 1:05PST dozens of people suddenly hit this thread and started attacking the premise.




Yes, if you classify slave labor as someone voluntarily doing work for which they get paid.


there's nothing voluntary about participation in capitalism.


So you want to change the scope of the argument to: all Google employees are plantation slave labor?

Ask yourself this--if any plantation slaves were alive today, would they agree with your comparison?


No, he is attacking capitalism, he wants the World Soviet where we are all slaves of the, or at least of some, government.




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