I'm against non-competes, but likening them to slavery seems distasteful. I'm not sure they infringe on people's freedoms or rather a specific people's freedoms the way slavery did/does. No one is going to secede over non-competes.
If the suggestion is "anything shy of complete chattel slavery", people get worried.
Two of those justices currently sit on the Supreme Court.
It failed.
If you think the US completely banned slavery, or that slavery is unpopular, you’re misinformed.