We already have short-term voluntary slavery. The prohibition on long-term voluntary slavery is due to the problem of calculation. I think it's related to the Hebrew concept of the 7 year abolition of debts.
A related concept would be the inviolability of property. Can you prevent your son from selling your land after your death? If so, you are limiting his right to ownership. Long-term slavery is limiting your own freedom.
I'm not proposing an argument here via rights, and not via paternalism (protection from self-harm), but according to the assumption that long-term voluntary slavery would result in a misallocation of labor, similar to involuntary slavery.
Slavery doesn't violate your freedom on the rights understanding of it, because, you are only unfree when your rights go unviolated, but when you are a voluntary slave none of your rights are violated, so, you are still free.
I don't see how a misallocation of labour occurs, because, the market is properly defined only by unenslaved labour. Saying labour is misallocated is a but like saying children not being allowed to work in certain industries ensures a misallocation of labour too.
Forcing people to work runs the risk of creating a labor trap, where an employer has too many laborers with no incentive to let them go. When labor has its price updated regularly, it creates better allocation. What you’re advocating for would be like me buying stock in a company that I’m not allowed to sell for 10 years. If such financial instruments were created, it would seem to be a less efficient form of market calculation. We want more liquidity in the market, not less.
Forcing children to work is taking away their opportunity for education, so prohibiting child labor is a way of subsidizing childhood education, and also subsidizing the wages of adults. Conversely, it makes having kids more expensive (since you can’t rent them out), which helps disincentivize poor people from having kids. So I would defend it on those grounds.
There are, indeed people who are intent on preventing people having children. The last few vaccines, including polio and papilloma, not to mention the mRNA voncoctions have caused and are causing sterility in a large number of women.
Back in the 80s, thousands of unnecessary hysterectomies were administered to women from 'working class'/high unemployment areas. There are people with an agenda which necessitates greatly reducing the existing population, let alone allowing new lives to be brought into the world... They currently dominate affairs and, unless they are stopped, parenting will not be an issue. Even if they succeed, parenting will not be an issue as they do not believe parents are the right people to rear new citizens...
Voluntary slave contracts are taboo for the same reason that polygamy is taboo. They cut against the Western ideal of a society of political equals.
We already have short-term voluntary slavery. The prohibition on long-term voluntary slavery is due to the problem of calculation. I think it's related to the Hebrew concept of the 7 year abolition of debts.
A related concept would be the inviolability of property. Can you prevent your son from selling your land after your death? If so, you are limiting his right to ownership. Long-term slavery is limiting your own freedom.
I'm not proposing an argument here via rights, and not via paternalism (protection from self-harm), but according to the assumption that long-term voluntary slavery would result in a misallocation of labor, similar to involuntary slavery.
Slavery doesn't violate your freedom on the rights understanding of it, because, you are only unfree when your rights go unviolated, but when you are a voluntary slave none of your rights are violated, so, you are still free.
I don't see how a misallocation of labour occurs, because, the market is properly defined only by unenslaved labour. Saying labour is misallocated is a but like saying children not being allowed to work in certain industries ensures a misallocation of labour too.
Forcing people to work runs the risk of creating a labor trap, where an employer has too many laborers with no incentive to let them go. When labor has its price updated regularly, it creates better allocation. What you’re advocating for would be like me buying stock in a company that I’m not allowed to sell for 10 years. If such financial instruments were created, it would seem to be a less efficient form of market calculation. We want more liquidity in the market, not less.
Forcing children to work is taking away their opportunity for education, so prohibiting child labor is a way of subsidizing childhood education, and also subsidizing the wages of adults. Conversely, it makes having kids more expensive (since you can’t rent them out), which helps disincentivize poor people from having kids. So I would defend it on those grounds.
There are, indeed people who are intent on preventing people having children. The last few vaccines, including polio and papilloma, not to mention the mRNA voncoctions have caused and are causing sterility in a large number of women.
Back in the 80s, thousands of unnecessary hysterectomies were administered to women from 'working class'/high unemployment areas. There are people with an agenda which necessitates greatly reducing the existing population, let alone allowing new lives to be brought into the world... They currently dominate affairs and, unless they are stopped, parenting will not be an issue. Even if they succeed, parenting will not be an issue as they do not believe parents are the right people to rear new citizens...