Here's a job. You need a job. It pays in company scrip [1]. People took those jobs despite the negative consequences. The government eventually made such scheme

Here's a job. You need a job. It pays in company scrip [1]. People took those jobs despite the negative consequences. The government eventually made such schemes illegal. Your argument is "People have free choice, so anything that they do is legal." The excuse of the perpetrators is "I'm not the one (directly) responsible for your poor economic situation, or your lack of education, so it's fair and moral for me to offer you a terrible proposition that you absolutely would not make if you were in a better economic situation." This is just where extreme capitalism gets you. The list of examples is endless. Scrip. Children working in mines or cleaning chimneys. Click-through TOS. "Free" email. Indentured servitude. At the end of the day it's no different than "You need to get on this boat to america, or this gentleman here is going to cut your wife's throat. Hey, it's not me doing the cutting. I'm the good guy. I'm trying to keep you safe. But its your choice." It really depends on what we mean by "choice". [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Company_scrip