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HN loves it's metaphors and analogies. This one falls apart quite quickly because the transaction between you and your car mechanic is orders of magnitude more elastic/liquid than that of a employee and an employer. This is why the laws that govern those transactions are wildly different.

Once your car mechanic's single source of income is your transaction, which feeds their children and puts a roof over their family's head (as is the case for many employees), then maybe we can revisit this analogy.

Finally, because your analogy was so weak, I would also recommend to reexamine your opinion on employee rights at large, because they may be formed around similarly broken logic. Remember, the more your neighbors are protected from poverty and destitution, the less likely they are to be caught in a lifestyle of drugs and violence, which also benefits you and your family.