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    Voluntariness exists on a spectrum; choices made under economic constraint are not categorically equivalent to choices made under coercion.

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    • 1.Coercion involves direct threats of harm; economic constraints involve pre-existing scarcity, making them categorically different in origin.
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    • 2.People retain multiple options under economic pressure but face single forced paths under coercion, preserving meaningful choice even when constrained.
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    • 3.Voluntariness requires only that an agent acts on their own desires rather than another's commands; poverty reflects circumstance, not overridden agency.
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    • 1.Both coercion and economic desperation eliminate genuine alternatives by making refusal practically impossible, differing only in mechanism not outcome.
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    • 2.If voluntariness requires meaningful alternatives, someone choosing between starvation and exploitative work lacks voluntariness just as much as under gunpoint.
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    • 3.Distinguishing coercion from economic constraint risks justifying systemic exploitation by calling constrained choices 'voluntary' merely for lacking explicit threats.
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