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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kobold Boots" data-source="post: 6054613" data-attributes="member: 92239">It sounds like the last three I've signed, so to me it's standard.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  You'd have to modify federal labor law to allow it as if you're salaried you're considered to "always" be on the clock; therefore you don't have "you" time that's yours.  Additionally, your comments about political speech and such don't apply to a game designer's scope of employment so long such speech doesn't adversely impact the firm.I don't think you're silly or crazy, but I do think that there's a certain level of drama to your point given the severity of the original topic.  Using any example that denies free will (slavery, drug addiction) to further an argument where there's a clear free-will component (to sign or not to sign) is extreme and should be called out as such.Now "some day" cultural relativity may take over and such things may be seen as oppressive but I'd imagine that in a corporate-government culture that won't necessarily be the case.  I'd also ask you to think long and hard about whether the equality and social advances we've seen in the last 150 years have been to the detriment or benefit of corporate goals and I think you'd find what really drives freedom.</blockquote>

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