Given how I’ve been treated by various corporations, I’d say that plenty of companies consider workers as “a valuable item that is owned”. I had a clause in one

Given how I’ve been treated by various corporations, I’d say that plenty of companies consider workers as “a valuable item that is owned”. I had a clause in one contract they tried to insert that stated I was not allowed to work in any company that was a client of theirs or start a business of my own that might compete against them. My lawyer laughed out loud at that clause.