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    7 months ago

    Alienated ≠ violated
    An inalienable right isn’t one that should not be alienated, but rather can’t be alienated. For labor’s rights, responsibility can’t be alienated at a material level. Consent isn’t sufficient to transfer responsibility to another. For example, a contract to transfer responsibility for a crime is invalid regardless of consent.

    Legal rights can be fictions but also can be based on ethics.

    Workers consent to employment unlike kings. Inalienability shows it’s invalid