This is not limited to your country. Every developping society in the modern era built a social consciousness that getting a fixed income job is the key to modern life after getting rid of hard labor works in farms. While the truth is that we changed agricilture work by factory employments plus governamental jobs when rulers tried to build a modern state by just focusing on education and modernization of administration. Later we discovered that fixed salary jobs aren't ever the key to luxury life.
Basically we work in cubicles instead of farms. Which basically says that it's the companies that are farms now, and we are the crop. The more worker you have ,the more job is done for you, and basically it's like corn or whatever, the more you have, the more income they will make for you.
And just like farming, there are bad crops, failed ones, rotten ones, and you throw them to trash, like how you fire a bad worker. So it is not really that different. Only difference is, we have gotten some comfort, it's a company, in a building, with a chair, and AC, and internet. So you are not labouring away like you used to, but you are more comfortable while working for your overlords basically. That is the way it is going so far.
This is a discussion of defining some conceptions. What you think it was a slavery in old ages, may just developped since then and can be defined as midern slavery.