every employment contract ever signed between a capitalist and an employee whose labor they want to exploit is one signed under duress. its not in the employee's interest to not accept these wages. How else are they going to pay for shelter, food, or health care? if you don't provide a roof over your head, the police will arrest you for sleeping at the park. the affordable care act mandated most us residents to have health care, meaning that the state could come for you if you didnt. if you dont feed your kids, the state will take them from you. at every turn, its forced coercion by the capitalists, who have the means to pay you wages, or the state, who will come for you if you don't.
Discussion
Take the community of exploitation you're describing and imagine there are a set of stateless, voluntary anarchist societies open to immigration. Some are ancap, some are ancoms, some are something else entirely. These exploited laborers can go to one of those where they suspect they'll fare better.
Do you see a a problem with that?
nope. just like Castro didnt hold anybody hostage in Cuba, anybody and everybody is free to find better for themselves and their communities.
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What if they don't have the means to travel away from Cuba because they were never allowed to accrue wealth? Couldn't that been seen almost similarly to "wage salves" in the sense that "they can go elsewhere if they want!" (But really they don't have options or means to exit because the state system defacto reduces their options)
maybe? a u.s. government corporation (FDIC) currently manipulates the cost of credit to reduce options for their citizens to afford a home for their families. the u.s. state also works with private corporations in keeping criminals out of the work force by prioritizing hiring folks without a record, reducing their options too.. Cuba's particular situation is a cruel blockade by the u.s. that bars them from accessing credit markets and disincentivizes companies from doing business with them or shipping anything into or out of the country easily, so its a capitalist fascist empire state that is ultimately preventing any kind of wealth accumulation from happening in Cuba, not any kind of socialist government suppression of economic development. there are lots of private cooperatively run enterprises in Cuba. a lot of these folks get help from family outside.
until the capitalist state is abolished we will all be wage slaves.