There are two principles between which there can be no compromise: liberty and coercion.
-Frederic Bastiat
Without mutual consent, voluntaryism is impossible. It gives legitimacy to human interactions.
Consent is magical. It turns stealing into sharing, slavery into service, extortion into charity, exploitation into cooperation, and rape into loving intimacy.
When individuals disregard consent and choose to use threats and violence, they become aggressors and agents of control. They sever human connections and prove they are not worthy of the greater knowledge and power of higher consciousness.
There is only one valid reason for using force to act against the will of other people: defense against aggression.
It has been said that organizational legitimacy stems from the “consent of the governed”. Taken literally, this is a true principle. It naturally implies the right of individuals to refuse their consent to participate (disobey “authority”), or to withdraw their consent to participate (secede). However, this is not the case with government, as they employ a twisted version of the principle based on manufactured, ill-informed consent of some of the neighbors of the governed. Contrary to what collectivists may claim, there is no so-called “social contract” that binds everyone to submit to violation of their unalienable rights under natural law.
Rather than resort to threats and violence against peaceful people, civilized people use persuasion to build relationships and cooperate to improve their lives.
What if the consent is manipulated, extorted or otherwise obtained? When people are brainwashed since birth into the corporation system, and almost all alternatives have been bought up and taken over/disassembled, then the average person has no choice but to "consent" to be exploited by the corporation. Signing a contract might seem consensual, but not when the employer is threatening to starve one's family and cut off one's means of survival.
Perhaps in some utopian future when people have real alternatives to working in corporate exploitation plantations you might have a point - but here and now? Read Richard Wolf.
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Employers don't starve people, they offer them a cooperative opportunity. If you don't want to cooperate with them, you are free to do otherwise.
Being angry at people who offer opportunities to work together is a rather misplaced attack on the universe. It is the universe that imposes scarcity and entropy on you, not employers.
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