i was trying to do an aphorism but i'll explain myself. slavery was of course incredibly impersonal, it is as a social relationship arguably defined by its closeness to death. slavery is a thing that happens to people who would have otherwise just been killed. the whole point of the notion of slavery was to find a social abstraction for treating other human beings this way. but it's interesting that within this incredibly depersonalizing act of owning and using slaves, it was also incredibly personal. what else is more personal than forcing another human being to be subservient to your entire will? on the other hand, capitalism promises to deify the individual. it claims to be the definition of that which is personal. it locks us up in the politics of interpersonal squabbles because the politics of the material has been removed from the hands of power. but in this, you get losers like the guy in the tweet. the alienation of wage labor. it's a machine that in no way intrinsically requires humans as fuel, that's just what it currently runs on. slavery is a machine that can only be formed between two human beings.