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For a really large amount of money would you become a slave for a limited time?

Asked by Hypocrisy_Central (26879points) March 17th, 2015

If for being a slave for 7 years you would be rewarded freedom and 800 million dollars, would you? If you took the 3 year option you would be given 500 million, and given 150 million of you entered into slavery for 18 months. As a slave the owner could not maim or disfigure you, starve you, have you eat foods not for humans (no diet of dog foot etc.), they cannot leave you physically impaired, tattoo your body, violate you sexually, burn you with cigarettes, torture you, or have you engage in activity that would be dangerous and likely to lead to death. They can, use harsh coercion methods, they can slap you, whack you with heavy phonebooks, flog you with rubber hoses, spit on you, leave you without heat, not provide adequate blankets etc. and they cannot work you more than 11 hours a day and must give you one day of rest a week. Truthfully, would you ever think of it? What if you hit really hard times, would it look better? When you think of the fact you’d be set for life at the end, it would still be unpalatable?

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talljasperman's avatar

Sounds like grade school… I think I already did that for free. Sounds like a sweet deal. But no I wouldn’t if I went back that way I would kill myself. I don’t want any more pain.

Lightlyseared's avatar

If you’re being paid would you be a slave?

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

^ If you’re being paid would you be a slave?
If you are getting it as you go, then you are a “wage slave” more than just a slave.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

That doesn’t sound much different than farm work. No heat in the winter, hotter than hell in the summer, you get spit on, shit on, and pissed on, an 11 hour day is a holiday, you don’t get hit with hoses, just shitty tails and you get kicked and stepped on, and death is never far away if you screw up. Where do I sign?

Espiritus_Corvus's avatar

As a slave the owner could not maim or disfigure you… They can, use harsh coercion methods, they can slap you, whack you with heavy phone books, flog you with rubber hoses, spit on you, leave you without heat, not provide adequate blankets etc.

My god, man. Is this some sick shit fantasy your mind has vomited up on it’s own, or is there someone out there that is actually making this offer? Never mind. Neither would surprise me.

Don’t you know that the use of telephone books and rubber hoses are a favored way of seriously injuring people (internal organ damage with long-term debilitating effects) without leaving marks? This is professional torture shit. Think pissing blood, suffering continuous diarrheal scurvy from a planned lack of Vitamin C, or rickers from a lack of D, cracked ribs, torn spleen, bruised liver or pancreas. Then sleep on a cold concrete floor for a couple of months and, combined with the inability to breathe deeply, you will soon contract and die of static pneumonia—your lungs will slowly fill with water and you will drown. It’s not a pretty death, and it is can simply be caused by bad conditions and passive neglect on the part of your jailer without the beatings. People die everyday in prisons all over the world from exposure to heat and cold. The filth factor alone temps a horrible death from infection and e. coli. In other words, there is no way to escape the maiming, crippling and threat of death if the sadists are allowed to do any of this. Anyone agreeing to this for any length of time at all is sick… and if they aren’t out of their miserable masochistic minds to begin with, they will be long before the first eighteen months is up.

And these fucking sadists who would make this offer should be dragged out into the street and shot—live on TV. Fuck ‘em. I’ll be glad to do it. People like this do not belong on the same planet breathing the same air as the rest of us.

talljasperman's avatar

Sounds like 1984 book. Where the author asks if you would throw acid on a child.

Berserker's avatar

I might do it for 18 months and 150 million. I don’t like those conditions though, they could screw up your health.
Too much work, shitty sleep due to lack of proper bedding and warmth, beatings…with rubber hoses…dafuq dude…eh. I might try it anyway though.

But 800 million? Who the fuck needs that much.

Brian1946's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe

“That doesn’t sound much different than farm work. ...you get spit on, shit on, and pissed on….”

I had no idea that farming was so controversial! ;-0

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Laughs, the girls are always pissy, the rooster is a big dick, and the pig is well, a hog. You spend all day mediating interspecies and other conflicts. The only plus over congress is you can shovel or unload the shit and it doesn’t smell as bad.

zenzen's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe animal farm. Animal Farm.

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Berserker's avatar

This thread is just too sexy for my uncultured ass.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@zenzen It was a rough, mean job, but I would do it all over again in a second. We pulled together and we made a great team.
@Symbeline Which parts were too sexy. Let a guy know. XD

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@Symbeline Too much work, shitty sleep due to lack of proper bedding and warmth, beatings…with rubber hoses…]
They can only work you for 11 hours, and just because they can withhold blankets and heat don’t mean they will, likewise for driving you with a rubber hose, some owners might actually have some compassion.

Coloma's avatar

Hell no, I already did that in a 22 year marriage and while my freedom is sweet the price tag was pretty damn dismal. lol
Hmmm…maybe I’ll ask the question, if you were caught in a trap would you chew your own leg off to escape? LMAO!

jerv's avatar

I served in the US Navy and they still haven’t paid up.

Never
Again
Volunteer
Yourself

funkdaddy's avatar

So like work now, but with physical contact, for roughly a couple thousand times the pay.

And then you do whatever you want for the rest of your life?

Yes, all day.

longgone's avatar

You say there would be no torture, then go on to describe methods of torture. I would be concerned for myself if I even entertained the thought.

Lightlyseared's avatar

@Hypocrisy_Central so if getting paid as you go makes you a wage slave I assume you work for free out of principle?

stanleybmanly's avatar

Most of us spend a lifetime slaving for scraps. There is no way to pair the word “slave” with 18 months for 150 million dollars. In view of the compensation, the terms are ridiculously mild, and the “position” could be filled for a great deal less. What you are describing is a very lucrative JOB.

Hypocrisy_Central's avatar

@longgone You say there would be no torture, then go on to describe methods of torture.
The Bush administration did not define those as torture.

@Lightlyseared […so if getting paid as you go makes you a wage slave I assume you work for free out of principle?
No, I have been a wage slave most my life. These days I am working on channeling my inner immigrant, and letting my entrepreneur spirit find ways where I can make money for myself, than then have that money make more money.

Berserker's avatar

You know why my friends call me Moe? Because whenever someone gives me money, I always want mo’. random

I’m pretty sure beatings are regarded as torture. Edit lol

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