Only in the most ridiculously pedantic technical sense.
So, choosing to work a wage paying job, even if you have few other options (for whatever reason), is akin to slavery.
However, being forced at gunpoint to hand over a percentage of your earnings, no matter from where they are derived, is nothing like slavery whatsoever?
Wage slavery, on the other hand, can and has produced actual, verifiable living conditions very similar to those suffered by slaves.
I know which one of those concerns me more. The one that actually happens.
Can you give me an example of wage slavery being imposed by entities not sponsored and given privilege by a nation-state?
Taxation doesn't happen!?