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[theaustinescorts]

When this country was founded the only men who were INTENDED to be really free [and to which the Declaration of Independence was referring to]* were men who made their own living in some way rather than as someone else's employee. This included people who worked their own farms, as well as craftsmen, artists, professionals [esq.] and businessmen entrepreneurs.

At that time anyone who had to take orders from an employer, his authority, to pay his bills was little more than a "wage slave," who had to grovel and do whatever his "employer" told him to do.

Today almost everyone is an employee.

This is a product of industrialization perhaps, and we're all pretty used to it, but the dark side of it which our eighteenth century founders recognized has been forgotten by us.

When someone looks to some authority to issue him a paycheck as his only means of paying his bills he's gonna get pretty used to following OTHER PEOPLE'S ORDERS AND AGENDA.

When someone has a corporate or government job they get used to entering into a social contract where all their MATERIAL needs are met if they follow very specific rules.

This is the problem.

The employee/employer relationship is inherently authoritarian, hierarchical and absolutist. What's really pernicous about this system is that it yields such material prosperity. It's hard to criticize such as system as morally unsuitable when those who belong to it mostly live in huge houses, drive new cars, and enjoy tremendous health insurance coverage. Their kids are well clothed, decadant, and have no real worries in the world. Their kids become obsessed with what Kloe Kardashian will do, what colllege they will attend for their career goals, and who will be their employer. Once they become employed their chief concern is only how to please their boss, and how to get that next big promotion.

However when people accept this authoritarianism too much, and without reservation, they seek the same from our other institutions [principally government]. They fall into patrimonialism, collectivism, and other doctines destructive of any form of individualism. They adopt whatever the interest of their employers may be, and are brainwashed into believing that the interests of their employers are also their own and that of society at large. They come to believe that their employers, their government, and all authority is benevolent in all that they might do. Anyone who dissents is villified as malicious, crazy or criminal.

*many modern historians have tried to assert otherwise, and that Jefferson intended that "all men are created equal" meant all people, including women, indentured servants, slaves, men under arms, etc...
However there is no evidence of such, and it's very clear that Jefferson and almost everyone else considered women, slaves, men-under-arms, etc., to be of different status by birth or contract. Modern people who consider anyone with prejudices to be malevolent will never accept that the founders had such prejudices but possessed a sense of honor nonetheless...albeit a different sense of honor.
It was because their honor was disgraced as MEN by the crown that they put their own necks into a royal noose for reasons of honor. Honor was for them the most important thing in their lives because it made them different from the second class status which slaves, women, and others possessed. They lived in the world which had always been for thousands of years. Our standards have only been around for a hundred years or so therefore how can we blame them? It would have been impossible for them to have thought any differently.