[BurningFrog]

That consent can only occur between equals is a principle that only gets applied to things people want to ban for other reasons.

We all buy things daily from entities with much more power than ourselves, for example.

[keiferski]

Focusing on equal relations is missing the point, which is that the corporation (a more powerful entity) is selling you things, not the other way around. “Punching down” isn’t acceptable, and all that.