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Are you completely sure about that? But let's put that aside for a moment. I said we should use a different term.
Feudalism.

This is what employment on Ferenginar is most possibly like. Rom is our only true example, so there's really no help there.

But that kind of unbridled capitalism can only lead to something like feudalism.

Now, to go back to your point about not being able to unionize being hardly slavery. Look at it this way, there has never been unionization on Ferenginar. There have never been worker's rights. This means things like worker safety is not a concern over profits. Neither is child labor. I won't even get into gender issues.

Workers without rights are almost slaves.