[riversflow]

“The alternative to indentured servitude is free labor, which already exists. If people preferred free labor to indentured service, no one would sign a service contract, but they do.”

-paraphrasing someone 300 years ago, probably.

Sometimes people pick things that are bad; that people choose something doesn’t make it somehow good.

[cmcd]

Pretty extreme to compare FaceBook to indentured servitude, everyone is free to leave FaceBook at any time and we know up front what their model is.

[riversflow]

Seems apt to me. Indentured servitude actually seemed reasonable to a lot of people looking to move, you got expensive passage on a ship in exchange for working for a set length of time. Facebook is a platform for social manipulation, in a few hundred years I wouldn’t be at all surprised if we see that social manipulation as a morally intolerable evil. The sort of tracking/aggregating they do is a violation of privacy as extreme as indentured service is on free will.

[e_proxus]

An analogy is not a comparison. I think an analogy here was made to reinforce the point made, not to in any way claim that Facebook somehow deals with indentured servitude.