If someone starting a business works many hours themselves for $2/hour, and asks their spouse/children to chip in, and calls in favors from family and friends t

If someone starting a business works many hours themselves for $2/hour, and asks their spouse/children to chip in, and calls in favors from family and friends to get things going - then that's bootstrapping on cheap labor, but nobody in their right mind would call that 'slavery'. When starting a business when you have nothing, you have to be frugal, yet you can't do everything alone - that doesn't mean all ways you can get work done at below-market rates are sleazy or immoral.