peonage

Iceland demonstrated that it's possible to say no to perpetual debt peonage and go on to do well.

The rich won't be happy until everyone else is living in favelas and subjected to debt peonage.

It also shows how debt is deeply linked to slavery, women slavery in particular, through the phenomenon of debt peonage.

As in, stable places to live that don't put them in debt peonage their whole lives?

There are plenty of examples of slavery, where no conquest had happened at all, e.g., peonage.

Simultaneously, they intensify advertising to keep us on the hedonic treadmill, and thus trapped in a life of debt peonage.

Why not start out as high as you can, and then get demoted to peonage - getting the best of both?

On the other hand, peonage is enticing to me b/c then you don't have to care so much about red tape.

The exact degree of peonage or independence you are given varies with how the advisor and student get along, and with their goals.

Slaves were released into debt peonage while their owners were paid reparations.

You can either accept mass default, a debt-jubilee, currency inflation, or put whole continents into debt-peonage for their mostly-unwilling participation in leverage-driven asset bubbles.

-Greedy elites in England monopolized land and subjected working people to indenture, peonage, servitude, and low wages.

Some people say that living as humans in the wild is preferable to "debt slavery" or "peonage" or whatever the leftists-word-du-jour is.

Going to college means they are making a real commitment to their futures." From the comments: "This "degree inflation" seems like a new system of debt peonage.

"Debt peonage", it was called, and it has been incredibly common through human history.

It says: "Though much has been made of the system of peonage that kept sharecroppers in perpetual debt, tying workers to the same plantation year after year, there is significant evidence that Georgia croppers moved rather fluidly from place to place and from one form of labor to another.

Peonage, also called debt slavery or debt servitude, is a system where an employer compels a worker to pay off a debt with work.