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Re: Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements

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While I dislike your arguments, I have to agree with their correctness. Most of them. Having had relatives had relatives in jail, they are not coddled. Yes, it is better than the past, but in all ways jail, let alone prison, is much worse than being on the outside.

I don't mean to suggest people are coddled in Prison. I don't particularly like law enforcement, or prison staff. I think the majority of them are crooked, either by direct action or by indirect action. However, prosecutors in many cities refuse to prosecute many classes of crime, and are elected on this basis [1]. In my view, this just contributes to what makes them crooked. They refuse to enforce the law as it is o…

One could argue they are elected not to prosecute every single crime committed but to use discretion in what they prosecute to maximize good given their limited resources.

If all they did was prosecute every crime to the fullest extent, they would not need to be elected.

Re: Judge stops FTC from enforcing ban on non-compete agreements

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Please try to intelligently elaborate how it’s slavery when all of the defining characteristics of slavery are removed (involuntary work, physical violence for disobeying, inability to change employers, etc). What do you think it meant to “buy a slave’s freedom”?

What are you actually disputing? Are you claiming Roman slaves were not slaves and both the Romans that lived thousands of years ago and modern historians are wrong to call them slaves?

Read the thread. I’m saying people who refer to working in the US today as slavery are diluting the word to something meaningless.

All of the defining characteristics of slavery are not present. The Roman slaves had no autonomy to choose their employer or to just quit.

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