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After watching liberals and progressives over the course of my life propose that terms be forced on employers for the employees benefit like minimum wage, paid family leave, maternity leave, and childcare the question arises if they actually believe we have a right to contract. The right to contract doesn't just mean the right to enter into a contract, but the right to agree to the terms of a contract on your own terms for your own reasons. It means that when the terms are not to your liking you can walk away freely, and when they are to your liking you can freely agree to them. It doesn't mean that you have a long list of predetermined terms of a contract that you must find agreeable to hire employees or to get a job. To liberals and progressives however this appears to be exactly what it means, and while I find their beliefs on the subject entirely repulsive and oppressive I'm left wondering what other people think. Do you think liberals and progressives actually believe in the right to contract?