[AngryData]

Im not sure it is contractual when death is the alternative. It isn't like they can just walk to an empty piece of land and build a cabin and farm on it to live. Or wander the wilds foraging and hunting. Work, or the capital to purchase other people's work, is a requirement to live here. That is why I support stronger minimum wages and eliminating work 'benefits' in favor of paying that money directly to employees. If they want to buy into a company insurance plan, so be it, but it should be entirely optional and payed into out of their bank account, not drawn out before the employee even knows what it is worth. Companies are using benefits to hide employee's actual wages from them so it is harder to even value your own income and compare it to others or other companies.

[Jabanga]

Why can't it be contractual when death is the alternative? What if I agree to provide X in exchange for someone's kidney? That can't be contractual? Unless there is imminent threat of death, I can see a contract that is entered into by one of the parties in order to avoid death as meeting every condition of consent.