While (modern? ideal?) marriage is a peer-to-peer relationship, the relationship between employee and employer is unbalanced, more like pet-owner. Societal res

While (modern? ideal?) marriage is a peer-to-peer relationship, the relationship between employee and employer is unbalanced, more like pet-owner. Societal restrictions on contracts are a way to balance this. Virtually all societies have some form of this, outside utopian ultra-liberal hellholes.