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When you can imagine a slave owner making the same argument ('it invalidates my business model!'), said argument kind of becomes a positive.

I mean that seriously. If your business model can't exist without the exploitation of humans. maaaaaaybe it shouldn't exist, morally.

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Yes because people choosing to work based on their own free will is the equivalent of kidnapping people from another country and if you try to escape once here, they are chased by dogs, shot, hung, whipped, kids taking away at birth and sold.

If you don’t believe that a company shouldn’t exist unless it can do so profitably. That means almost none of the companies that YC invests in should exists.

If a country has a health care system that is tied to your employment status, just maybe we need a sane health care system.

I would like for you to define 'free will' in such a way that it cannot, in any way, include slavery. And you must do so by not explicitly defining it as 'not slavery'.

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What you are asking makes no sense. Are we really arguing that slaves had free will to choose where to work or if not to work?

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