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