Any man's a fool who lets himself be a wage-earning slave, today.

D.h. Lawrence
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A wage-earning slave is one who works for someone else. His own family, perhaps, or another family. When he is on the job, he is totally dependent on his employer. You can be sure that if his employer should decide to fire him for some reason or another, he would lose everything—his home, his savings, his job, maybe even his family. He would become a homeless person overnight.

Source: The First Lady Chatterley

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