[jevoten]

> What even is "freedom of contract"?

When people organize and collectively set limits to their exploitation, in the form of legislation (child labor laws, workplace safety rules, ability to join unions and discuss salary, limits on non-compete and similar clauses, etc.), corporations will try to frame this as illegitimate, infringing on their ideal society where the only law is contract law, and they're the ones writing the contracts.

Because organization and collective action on the basis of democracy is the counterweight to the organization based on capital concentration, the latter tries to cast the former as illegitimate.