I mean functionally we are slaves there's just no physical punishment for not working. Instead you just lose everything you worked for.
I'm gaming more and working more. I work more because everything is expensive af and just keeps going up. I'm gaming more because my job requires talking to hundreds of people a day so I like to just sit in silence mindlessly playing games
Reminds me of an episode of one of those medical shows where a nonverbal autistic kid keeps trying to tell everyone he's got worms in his eyes but he can only tell them by drawing the worms so it just looks like a bunch of squiggly lines on paper.
Or shutter island when DiCaprio is talking about his dead wife saying she had a bug in her brain before going crazy and killing their kids.