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The rental of humans, the standard employment relationship today, is invalid based on inalienable rights arguments tracing back to the anti-slavery movement. The illegitimacy of human rentals has nothing to do with worker coercion. Even the choice to rent oneself is invalid for the same reason the self sale into slavery is banned. This issue has tremendous implications, yet has remained buried in academia for the past several decades. Key points: 1) Personal responsibility is inalienable. This principle is already upheld by the judicial system with regard to criminal activity but should also be true in the case of productive labor. 2) The standard employment contract seeks to transfer responsibility for profits and losses from the employees to the owners of a business, pretending that the workers are not responsible for their actions. Because workers are actually responsible for appropriating any profit or loss, they should have governing control of their business. This would lead to democratic management by the members of a business. 3) In order to bring employment into alignment with people’s inalienable rights, worker owned democratically managed business or worker cooperatives are required. www.abolishhumanrentals.org
