• migo@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    When you have to eat and the means to feed ourselves is held by few, no transaction is voluntary.

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      1 year ago

      Of course it’s voluntary. You choose what you buy, when you do it, how much and from whom.

      If someone held you on gunpoint and told you to buy their product, that would be involuntary.

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        1 year ago

        You can choose what, when, how much, and from whom, but you are still are still forced to do so. Choosing which person puts me at gunpoint doesn’t make it voluntary

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          1 year ago

          You can also feed yourself by growing food or hunting. Neither of those are banned, just more inconvenient and you probably have some other skills to sell and buy food instead

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        You are forced to buy food, shelter, healthcare, a vehicle (US). You are forced therefore to have a job to pay for these things. Employers know this, and suppress wages with those together, the proverbial gun.