[andy58-in-nh]

Cheap labor isn't coerced
Actually it can be and very often is, under the guise of "voluntary" contract. It can be done in number of ways.

Name one.

Read some basic Economics - Hayek, Friedman, von Mises, even Samuelson, for Pete's sake.
Hayek, Friedman, von Mises represent a certain ideology. BTW, why this qualification "even" about Samuelson? Are his credentials in "basic Economics" suspect? Why?

The economists I named represent Capitalism, not an ideology. Capitalism is an economic - as opposed to a belief - system. Samuelson hedges his general support for markets with a policy preference for certain Government limitations and regulations on voluntary action. My judgment is that many of these limitations (wage and price controls, for example) have proven counterproductive. My preference is for freedom of contract, enforced by rational laws derived from the consent of the governed. Government make-work hacks and union thugs could not long survive in such an environment. Which explains a lot about Massachusetts....

[A. Pole]

Cheap labor isn't coerced Actually it can be and very often is, under the guise of "voluntary" contract. It can be done in number of ways.

Name one.

Aaargh. It is tiresome to explain the obvious.

Capitalism is an economic - as opposed to a belief - system. [...] My preference is for freedom of contract, enforced by rational laws derived from the consent of the governed.

You are confusing the idea/theory/abstract model with the reality. Your mind is trapped.

Government make-work hacks and union thugs could not long survive in such an environment.

Pay attention to your own words. You used the word "could". You are talking about something what you IMAGINE that it can exist. It cannot.