Abolish Human Rentals
= organization to abolish human wage labour on the basis of inalienable rights to personal sovereignty
URL = http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/
Description
"This site is dedicated to bringing an old idea into the public conscience, that the standard employment relationship, a contract for the rental of people, is invalid due to the inalienable rights of humans. It is based on the already widely held principle of the non-transferability of responsibility for one’s actions. That principle, taken to its logical conclusion, means the rental of humans have no more legitimacy than their sale.
The issue is not one of coercion, willfully choosing to be rented, or the treatment and compensation of workers. Humans cannot choose to be rented for the same reason people cannot choose to sell themselves into slavery or sell their vote, regardless of their consent or how much they are paid.
The abolition of human rentals will be no small task given their widespread prevalence and firm entrenchment in the economic system. The modern abolitionist movement must begin by destroying the false perception of legitimacy that human rentals currently maintain. When the abolition of human rentals is achieved, it will be the great accomplishment of our time.
Be aware that inalienable rights are a dangerous idea that pose a lethal threat to the system of human rentals, and one the system cannot address directly without inviting destruction. There are only two possible responses by the system: Silence in the hope that the obscure ideas never become widely known, or vilification and harassment of the advocates in the event they speak too loudly. The strategy has thus far been successful in hiding a profound idea and its revolutionary implications." (http://www.abolishhumanrentals.org/)
More Information
- Case for Economic Democracy, book by David Ellerman which makes the case against human rentals
- Labor Theory of Property
- Human Rentals