@lain @jlou yeah that's why i said it's not sure how much you can really infer from from "people cannot be rented". he says he's fine with people acting as if they were slaves, as long as there is no legal basis behind it. i'm not sure that any benign wage labour situation would need to legally treat people as rented.
the chair example is interesting. i guess you could argue that the result isn't actually the same, but i can't really see the harm.