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It's odd to describe a person who freely accepts a lifetime of servitude in exchange for his live as a slave. They could have chosen death instead, after all.

• CryptoPunk 6y ago
  Providing a service is not "servitude" in the context of 'slavery'. As for working as an alternative to starving, as Frédéric Bastiat wrote 170 years ago: "Man recoils from trouble, from suffering; and yet he is condemned by nature to the suffering of privation, if he does not take the trouble to work. He has to choose, then, between these two evils. What means can he adopt to avoid both? There remains now, and there will remain, only one way, which is, to enjoy the labor of others. Such a course of conduct prevents the trouble and the satisfaction from preserving their natural proportion, and causes all the trouble to become the lot of one set of persons, and all the satisfaction that of another. This is the origin of slavery and of plunder, whatever its form may be - whether that of wars, imposition, violence, restrictions, frauds, etc. - monstrous abuses, but consistent with the thought which has given them birth. Oppressors should be detested and resisted - they can hardly be called absurd."