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> unless the participants in the deal are being coerced.

Here's the nice thing about it: they are! If they don't work (for any of the equally exploitative companies in their country) they die.

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They are being coerced to participate in the capitalist system, maybe. Not to be a “chatter”.

No argument against protections, though.

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And yet lots of people don't work for companies and still manage not to die. I wonder how they do it? A mystery, I guess.
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Yes, everyone should become a one-person company!
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The requirement is that they not starve, not be made homeless, and not be forced into even less appealing and/or more dangerous work.

The coercion comes from the very limited choices they have to avoid that.

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