Now, I wish to get your opinion, friends. What do you think of such a statement?
Workers are not slaves, it entirely depends on where you work and if the welfare of the staffs are prioritized by the company. Furthermore, there are white collar jobs workers with good pay and not all jobs requires you to go to the office everyday. I've had a job as the ICT manager of a company and I'm only required to be at the office twice weekly(Mondays and any other day I'm needed).
When you can call white collar jobs slavery is when the remissions is not comparable with to the job requirements and staffs are undervalued, ill treated or their salaries delayed consistently.
I think I support your opinion because I believe not all workers are treated as slaves reacting to the point of the op, there are several reasons why most workers are under paid, mistreated and not valued in a company I think some of the reasons is the way the employee brought him self low and decided to step so low to accept the available job offer which is far different from what he is applying for or his area of specialization.
Lack of employment opportunities could make a job applicant to turn to a slave in a bad company because they will be scared of losing the available job even though they are under paying them they may also decide to endure hardship and mistreatment because of the fear of losing the current job and getting a new one so I believe the way a staff is treated in most companies depends on the way the staff appear in the company especially when he or she was seeking for the job.
Some private sectors value their staff because of the qualifications they have and the way they get clients as a result of the quality of the workers in the company, you can not compare the pay of a private sector to that of a government job because the government job has more life span than the private sector and the pay is usually higher than private sector but it is easier to get employment in the private sector than in the government sector.