If the government doesn't make laws that define broad principles, capitalism will eat you alive.
Employers are greedy and evil. Their focus is profit maximization. Not employee well being.
Given the chance, do you really think employers will even give vacation days to employees? No way. They will want you to work 24/7 if the govt. is ok with it.
> If the government doesn't make laws that define broad principles, capitalism will eat you alive.
Has it? Levels of life of the whole world are on the rise for the past 20 years at least - if you want to make that argument the current data does not support that at all.
At the beginning of civilized society? From the government itself. Then it slowly evolves into capital flow to people closely connected to the government (aristocrats, royalty, etc) and then to common people through banks.
You seem to imply that for any entrepreneurship, you need to have no worker protections at all. But that is simply false.
Employers are greedy and evil. Their focus is profit maximization. Not employee well being.
Given the chance, do you really think employers will even give vacation days to employees? No way. They will want you to work 24/7 if the govt. is ok with it.