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Having a low wage is just not like being a slave. The vast majority of humans who have ever lived were poor, but beside from the fact that slaves are also poor in a sense, the life of a typical poor person was not like the life of a slave. Ems might be poor in the sense of needing to work many hours to survive, but they would also have no pain, hunger, cold, sickness, grim, etc. unless they wanted them. Their physical appearance and surroundings would be what we'd see as very luxurious.
Only to the extent that this does not distract them from work. To the extent that it does, ems that care about such things would be outcompeted (out of existence, given a sufficiently competitive economy) by ones that are completely indifferent to them, and focus all their mental capacity on their job.
Yes, the surroundings would need to be not overly distracting. But that is quite consistent with luxurious.
Because as Einstein is attributed to have said, Kingsley said and positive psychology confirmed: “We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about.”