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

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

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

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

From Time Magazine Archive

Then occurred one of those familiar tragedies of the wage slave.

From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon