Brad Spangler, Director of the Center for a Stateless Society, published this little gem under Talking Points: Wage Slavery: The Short Version.

From the body of the post:

The state acts to involuntarily transfer wealth from the productive class to a political class elite, thereby monopolizing/cartelizing capital. Additionally, the state forcibly cuts off opportunities for economic self-sufficiency. The result is that people are forcibly denied any alternative but to sell labor artificially cheaply in a buyer’s market, where the buyers are a political class plutocracy gorged on stolen loot and enjoying economic influence they are not rightly due.

From the comments section by the ever brilliant Neverfox:

There is also another way that I’ve discussed before: a situation where people are treated, through the wage relation, as a thing without responsibility for its actions, i.e. a legal non-person in some regard (though not necessarily every regard, which is why I don’t think it’s sufficient to point to some ways that they are treated as a legal person, e.g. by pointing out that they can voluntarily disassociate without fear of reprisal). The burden, I think, is on the capitalist (in the ideological sense, not the purely descriptive sense of someone who owns capital) to explain, other than by duration, why renting someone by the hour is substantively different from buying someone for a lifetime, even when it’s voluntary, if both happen to require that the worker give up something they have no right to give up, i.e. some aspect of their legal standing as a person.

Also checkout the C4SS Market Anarchism FAQ lovingly looked after by Ross Kenyon:

However, market forces naturally undermine exploitation. Market Anarchists tend to see economic domination of working people as the product of statism and not the market. In a free society without Benjamin Tucker’s Four Monopolies over land, currency, patents, and tariffs, the economic dependency proletarians have upon capitalists is virtually destroyed. Capitalism, in the sense of an unjust status quo characterized by state-driven monopolization of capital, depends upon a captive labor force whose better options are destroyed or precluded by state intervention in the market on behalf of a parasitic elite.

As a Wobbly I am committed to the end of the Wage System. I believe liberty, ethics and market forces, along with direct action, radical democracy, community building, P6 committed cooperatives and fighting unions will get us to that end.  In a sense, I believe the whole universe is on our side.  State-Capital is an upside down pyramid only held in place by violence, blood, oppression and silence.  It will come down, it must come down.  The only questions left are, “when?”  And,  ”how much more do we tolerate?”

As Kevin Carson has so eloquently put it in The Iron Fist Behind the Invisible Hand:

“The current structure of capital ownership and organization of production in our so-called “market” economy, reflects coercive state intervention prior to and extraneous to the market. From the outset of the industrial revolution, what is nostalgically called “laissez-faire” was in fact a system of continuing state intervention to subsidize accumulation, guarantee privilege, and maintain work discipline.”