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

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

As an ordinary wage slave, I find the drop in the nation's production no mystery.

From Time Magazine Archive

He would be no more free than I am, and I am no more free than the person who is sometimes described as a "wage slave."

From War-Time Financial Problems by Withers, Hartley