'When you have an entire class of people with zero wealth (i.e., no ownership of the means of production), they are not at leisure to volunteer their time for a wage. They have no choice but to rent their bodies to owners, because if they don't work, they don't have any money to pay rent (which of course is more money to the owners) or buy food (yet more to the owners). Wage slavery is no more transactional than chattel slavery. The only difference is that it is class-based instead of race-based form of obligatory servitude. Socialists have only ever claimed the right to ownership over the means of production itself, which ontologically cannot be said to be the private property of anyone except Nature itself. I would ask what right capitalists/owners have to claim the means of production as their own? Why should profit always be funneled upward to the few when it is all of us who participate in creating it?'

MS