Guys, other people do not have a right to my labor other than on the terms I'm willing to provide it, period. We abolished involuntary servitude in the Thirteenth Amendment, and all the sob stories out there don't entitle anyone to force me to work for them if I don't want to.
And I'll tell you something else: I will NOT work 14 hour days and take on risks if people other than myself get to decide how I run my life. If other people want a claim on me, I'll quit this rat race and get a nice civil service job with benefits, where I won't have to make decisions, won't have responsibility, won't have stress and will have a lovely rubber stamp to mark on documents to my heart's content. I'll put my creative energies into something else.
That's structural equity, guys. You don't have a right to my brain.
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