> Preferring something to avoid pain or death doesn't lead to net positive transactions, in general. Actually, it does. Because avoiding pain or death, in a p

> Preferring something to avoid pain or death doesn't lead to net positive transactions, in general. Actually, it does. Because avoiding pain or death, in a preferable way, is by definition a net positive. > If I ask you whether you want your leg or your left hand cut off (and I have the power to make either happen) you can have a preference and still lose. That's not the shape of the example here. The employer isn't the only job in town, and the employer didn't impose a situation of joblessness on the guy. There are other employers he could do menial low-trust work for. The answer of imposing a minimum wage, by the way, means you get your leg and hand cut off.