Under that line of thought, wouldn’t taxes also be indentured servitude? Or loans? IMO the key is that the government will need to take a loss on the “loans”.
> Under that line of thought, wouldn’t taxes also be indentured servitude?
Taxes are much like indentured servitude. We allow the government to do things that we wouldn't allow private entities to do.
> Or loans?
Loans for specified amounts are legal, subject to some fairly strict protections (limits on APR, discharging them in bankruptcy, lots of required disclosure). You can't generally write a profit-sharing agreement that way - how would you tell the person how much they're going to have to repay? How would you stop them declaring bankruptcy immediately to get out of it?
