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It used to be a common position of American proto-libertarians as well, in the "individualist" tradition, like Lysander Spooner. There's an old American 18th/19th-century ideal of having your own tools/land/freedom and not having your labor subordinated to a boss/master/government/lord/duke/company/whatever.

Even Abraham Lincoln had a very tepid defense of wage work. He argued that working for a wage wasn't slavery or serfdom, in response to southern claims that northern workers weren't free men either. But his argument boiled down to: yes, wage-workers aren't truly free men for now, but since they are paid and not legally compelled to stay, they can save up money and eventually become their own masters, therefore their subordination to a boss should be regarded as merely a temporary condition that they will be able to escape from.




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