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=Slavery as an Involuntary Relationship= | =Slavery as an Involuntary Relationship=and | ||
#There are 400,000 slaves in the USA according to Wikipedia. | #There are 400,000 slaves in the USA according to Wikipedia, and 40 million worldwide [https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_in_the_21st_century#Definition] | ||
=Voluntary Slavery= | =Voluntary Slavery= | ||
#Wage slavery may be considered voluntary | #Wage slavery may be considered voluntary | ||
#"Some criticize wage slavery on strictly contractual grounds, e.g. David Ellerman and Carole Pateman, arguing that the employment contract is a legal fiction in that it treats human beings juridically as mere tools or inputs by abdicating responsibility and self-determination, which the critics argue are inalienable. As Ellerman points out, "[t]he employee is legally transformed from being a co-responsible partner to being only an input supplier sharing no legal responsibility for either the input liabilities [costs] or the produced outputs [revenue, profits] of the employer's business."[91] Such contracts are inherently invalid "since the person remain[s] a de facto fully capacitated adult person with only the contractual role of a non-person" as it is impossible to physically transfer self-determination.[92] As Pateman argues: | #"Some criticize wage slavery on strictly contractual grounds, e.g. David Ellerman and Carole Pateman, arguing that the employment contract is a legal fiction in that it treats human beings juridically as mere tools or inputs by abdicating responsibility and self-determination, which the critics argue are inalienable. As Ellerman points out, "[t]he employee is legally transformed from being a co-responsible partner to being only an input supplier sharing no legal responsibility for either the input liabilities [costs] or the produced outputs [revenue, profits] of the employer's business."[91] Such contracts are inherently invalid "since the person remain[s] a de facto fully capacitated adult person with only the contractual role of a non-person" as it is impossible to physically transfer self-determination.[92] As Pateman argues: | ||
=OSE Case= | |||
*OSE promotes entrepreneurship as the route of true self-determination | |||
*Labor relationships other than social enterprise are at risk of loss of self-determination | |||
Revision as of 17:59, 16 March 2019
=Slavery as an Involuntary Relationship=and
- There are 400,000 slaves in the USA according to Wikipedia, and 40 million worldwide [1]
Voluntary Slavery
- Wage slavery may be considered voluntary
- "Some criticize wage slavery on strictly contractual grounds, e.g. David Ellerman and Carole Pateman, arguing that the employment contract is a legal fiction in that it treats human beings juridically as mere tools or inputs by abdicating responsibility and self-determination, which the critics argue are inalienable. As Ellerman points out, "[t]he employee is legally transformed from being a co-responsible partner to being only an input supplier sharing no legal responsibility for either the input liabilities [costs] or the produced outputs [revenue, profits] of the employer's business."[91] Such contracts are inherently invalid "since the person remain[s] a de facto fully capacitated adult person with only the contractual role of a non-person" as it is impossible to physically transfer self-determination.[92] As Pateman argues:
OSE Case
- OSE promotes entrepreneurship as the route of true self-determination
- Labor relationships other than social enterprise are at risk of loss of self-determination