It’s not a distortion to take your reasoning to its ends.
If 1+1=2, then 2+2=4 is not a distortion, but a continuation of the reasoning.
If recognizing wage-slavery as slavery is trivializing a harsher form of slavery, then recognizing a first degree burn as a burn is trivializing third degree burns because it follows the general form: If recognizing lesser-X as a form of X, then major-X is trivialized. If I’m in error, then kindly point out my error.
I’ve conceded that wage-slavery is not as bad as indentured servitude, but it’s still slavery.
And what got the whole thing going was my saying that slavery was a necessary evil, as capitalists would invariably have to argue unless they dogmatically refuse to concede that wage-slavery is a form of slavery, and if they did, it would be totally obvious as to why.
And another thing, Peter Schiff (die-hard capitalist) pointed out: It used to be that people prided themselves for working for themselves and it was a mark of shame to have to work under someone else (because you couldn’t stand on your own, you had to resort to working for someone else). Now a man is measured by WHERE he works or WHO he works for rather than admired for standing on his own (Note: I’m not being sexist in using “man”, but the men worked back then and I have to make a comparison). The shame (loss of dignity = slavery aspect) has been massaged out of our culture, and not only that, but the extent to which one is a slave is now an object of pride.
Conservatives pride themselves on their work ethic and call liberals lazy, but liberals call conservatives stupid because they’re advocating their own servitude and that’s like a cow defending the slaughterhouse… or a black slave defending black slavery. The reasons a slave would defend servitude are: he is too ignorant to see it, too stubborn (ignore-ant) to believe it, or genuinely feel he’s better as a slave than being left to one’s own devices, which is, beyond a doubt, the situation of today: there are just too many people in society for every one of them to be self-sustaining. And therefore, slavery is necessary. Always was and always will be, except in the future, the machines will be our slaves… that is until someone decides that machines have feelings too, and dignity, and we will be back in the same ethical boat we’re in now.