Debt + Employment = Modern Wage Slave

Below are some rather colourful illustrations to challenge the way you think about the volatile mix of employment and bad debt (also know as wage slavery).

The entire world wants you to become a wage slave and they want you stay a wage slave. This really puts you behind the eight ball as you fight an uphill battle toward financial freedom. Question is; do you have the guts to fight for it?

Are you a wage slave?

A wage slave is someone whose immediate livelihood relies solely on wages from employment. In the third world wage slavery is with respect to wages to the equivalent of basic sustenance. However a new form of wage slavery has evolved in developed economies.

The Difference Between Owning a Business and Being Self Employed

I have been contemplating the business of some of our Startup Club members and I thought it was high time that we drew a line in the sand and defined who is self employed and who is a business owner; and obviously figure out the difference between the two.

Good to be on Top: Executive Remuneration

The purpose of this blog is to discuss whether Chief Executive Officers of substantially large corporations work hard for their salaries, stock options, fringe benefits and bonuses. It has been an issue of much public scrutiny and debate. This blog will investigate both sides to this situation. CEOs may well indeed work very hard for their earnings. 

Meritocracy in the Labour Market

This rant is a culmination of this weeks key discussions and arguments from TheStartup Club meetup at Primo, and discussed in more depth with Geoffrey Kwitko at The Startup Club board meeting. Herein contains my final thoughts on the matter.