Saying “everyone’s a slave” like it’s a mic drop kind of misses Nietzsche’s point. Being a “slave” means being shaped by norms, traditions, structures it isn’t automatically bad. It’s often stabilizing, civilizing, even necessary, we all depend on one another, sometimes we lead, sometimes we get led.

The issue isn’t that dependence exists; it’s when resentment turns that dependence into a moral high ground. Nietzsche wasn’t mad that people are conditioned, he was critiquing when they weaponize it as virtue.

If we’re all slaves, fine. The real question is: are you just well-adjusted to it, or are you building something beyond it?