wage slave

Example Sentences

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Just think, if only I had used that money to purchase Apple stock on the installment plan I'd be rich today instead of a wage slave.

From Slate • Mar. 18, 2011

With quiet poignance, with gay and gentle humor, with gradual but ultimately pulverizing irony, the director investigates the well-known social process that begins with a free soul and ends with a wage slave.

From Time Magazine Archive

Its caveat, which any wage slave should ponder, is that you can be hurt by your bosses' strength or weakness.

From Time Magazine Archive

He is not the dirt farmer or wage slave of the past, but the civil servant.

From Time Magazine Archive

It seemed to be felt that she had a right to perish without suffering the added ignominy of knowing her son was acting like a common wage slave.

From Somewhere in Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon