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

Whatever you do, don't become a wage slave, writes Dennis.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

It is a constructive program of economics that will result in the emancipation of the wage slave.

From Why I am in favor of socialism by Various