I agree completely about our cultural addiction to the 9-to-5, BUT-
Full stop.
Your portrayal of historic (US-style) slavery as anything positive to the enslaved is, to say the least, INSANELY twisted, as the modern, very real (not wage) slavery operates in precisely the same manner it always has, but with much more advanced tools- and I'd say you need to supply testimony from an ex-slave (and there are many thousands around the world) not suffering from Stockholm syndrome to make that case. I almost never would consider doing this on Steemit, but I have to call TOTAL BULLSHIT! on that.
When food, shelter, clothing, medical care, etc. are ENTIRELY controllable by an external authority with life-and-death authority, you're in an entirely different category of servitude from one which nearly any one can actually opt out of with proper preparation and clear and careful thought.
If we don't like the addictions the system is serving up to keep us in the "productive citizen" category, we can STEEM on away from it all- I doubt that option is accessible to slaves in China, SE Asia, the US and the rest of the hemisphere, or anywhere else (or EVERYWHERE else, for that matter). Escaping, or aiding in the escape, could get you killed in the US, and still can.
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TL;DR? Real slavery is real evil, real violent, and really difficult to escape.
Wage slavery may be real evil, but it's not that difficult to escape. What else are we doing here?
Well, I did make the same that the slavery part is more or less the same
Far, far less in terms of REAL evil suffering-
https://steemit.com/chainbb-general/@freedomnation/new-slaves-modern-human-trafficking-infographic
I never talked about contemporary human trafficking.