“Inalienable Rights: Part I The Basic Argument” - what Nozick and Rothbard got wrong
https://www.ellerman.org/inalienable-rights-part-i-the-basic-argument/
“An inalienable right is a right that may not be ceded or transferred away even with the consent of the holders of the right. Any contract to alienate such a right would be an inherently invalid contract, and, vice-versa, a right such that any contract to alienate it was inherently invalid would thus be an inalienable right.”
@PropaGandalf, what is your take on the article’s argument?
I can’t respond to @minnix’s lemmy account, so I will put my response here to the second half of their post.
The traditional libertarian stories that are claimed to rule out self-sale contracts are addressed in:
https://www.ellerman.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Philmore-1982.scan_.pdf
The theory of inalienable rights is what rules out these contract for all coherent classical liberals. Notably, the set of ruled out contracts includes the employer-employee contract
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