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

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

The wage slave is honored with the privilege of slavery only so long as he can work ten hours a day.

From The Man in Gray by Dixon, Thomas