bripat9643
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Yeah, actually there is.
Then you need to explain it, 'cause it sure ain't obvious. All I was saying was that the choice to accept or reject a job offer isn't nearly as "free" as you make out. It's "free" only in the sense that neither the employer nor the government is directly pointing a gun at the person's head and threatening punishment if they don't take the job. But circumstances may well be.
That's the meaning of freedom. It doesn't mean you aren't subject to the laws of nature. Man has to work to live. Government can't change that.
Again: the only free bargain possible is between equals. Which is, of course, the main reason for collective bargaining and unions. A single employee is NOT the equal of his employer and so cannot bargain freely with him. But all of the employees collectively ARE the employer's equal, and can make a free bargain. Of course, that's also why so many employers hate unions. They don't want to bargain with equals; they want to rent slaves by the hour.
That's a fundamentally Marxist conception of freedom. No such freedom ever existed or ever will. It makes a mockery of the very notion of freedom. Furthermore, it's cart blanch for government omnipotence. Only someone who was congenitally a believer in totalitarianism would espouse such a theory.