In real life, the prisoners of Plato's Cave are those who are prisoners or slaves to their wages and their culture.

A wage slave is a wage earner who is entirely dependent on their wages.

While the wage slave is free to leave the current job, he isn't free to leave the job market altogether and he can likely not imagine the possibility of doing so.

He is still entirely focused on the wall.

The wall shows other people not as who they are, but as what they own.

There goes a man in his new sports car--what is not seen is that the car is bought on credit and that the man is stressed because he is having trouble making the payments.

在现实生活中，柏拉图洞穴中的囚徒就是那些成为工资和文化囚徒或奴隶的人。

工资奴隶是指完全依赖工资的工薪阶层。

虽然工资奴隶可以自由地离开目前的工作，但他不能自由地完全离开就业市场，他很可能无法想象这样做的可能性。

他的注意力仍然完全集中在墙上。

这面墙展示的不是其他人的身份，而是他们所拥有的东西。

有一个人开着他的新跑车--人们没有看到的是，这辆车是赊账买的，而这个人因为还款有困难而倍感压力。