I know you’re being tongue in cheek, but I guess the comparison made here is one of the consequences of vague hyperbole to make a point rather than dialectical analysis. Usually from what I’ve seen (not here because people usually delve into class/caste analysis instead, but elsewhere) is it’s from the other end, of someone comparing employment under capitalism to slavery. So if one takes that as very literal and true, I guess it’s not the weirdest thing to reverse it and view employers as slave owners - or as you put it, slave “renters”.

But this kind of framing taken too seriously would fast lead to bizarre ultra-left positions of pure passionate disgust. No AES state would be valid because it has people employing and people employed despite being run by a communist vanguard and therefore “supports slave labor.”

How often things circle back to, “We really need more political education and less shallow sloganeering.”