@HeavenlyPossum
It's similar to what you said about chattel slavery vs. wage labour which boils down to a difference between "work for me or I kill you" vs. "work for me or I let you die". The perniciousness of it makes for a much more elegant and hard to uproot manner of control. It's easy to point to the oppressor using force but much harder to fault the one pointedly doing nothing and smiling.
Brendanjones