freedom to contract is always a good thing. I disagree. In an unbalanced relationship, the more powerful can take advantage of their power and impose contracts

freedom to contract is always a good thing. I disagree. In an unbalanced relationship, the more powerful can take advantage of their power and impose contracts that leave the less powerful significantly worse off. If your choice is, for example, to contract to surrender your statutory rights or be unemployed, the freedom people have is the freedom to be worse off or much worse off. I wouldn't say this is a good thing. We rely on government and (if we're lucky) unions to prevent this freedom.