[IsThisObvious]

How is paying me money any different if my only option if I quit was live on the streets and starve?

[seanmcdirmid]

Monopoly on means of survival is effective slavery. People in early agricultural societies didn't exactly have many choices.

[lostlogin]

This is the argument behind the movements for a living wage. However this is now, no early agricultural society, just first world shining light capitalism. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_wage

[seanmcdirmid]

There are huge limits to capitalism in terms of automation. We are going to hit those limits in our lifetime and society is going to need some drastic adaptations.