You're disingenuously leaving out the massive role unions played in the 1940s and 1950s in negotiating far better healthcare benefits.

Please explain how you would negotiate as an individual to get better healthcare benefits from Amazon when the benefits are provided as the same exact package to all employees. You can't. It never happens. Give even one example of an employee at a large company that has an individualized healthcare benefits package.

> Children are not freely consenting adults, which is why they get special legal protection. That's irrelevant to what we're discussing here.

And yet many businesses used child labor. These are the business you are claiming negotiate in good faith and fairly.