and the only tool They have to get away with these things on a large scale is money.
Money is only an agreement but sadly most don't understand this. It's not the money that is evil. it's those who we allow to control the agreement(s).
Your comment is dead on.
🙏💜🙏 It is not an agreement when One's life depends on it... It is coercion... And You are right. Money is merely a (VERY dangerous, archaic) tool. Dangerous because it promotes psychopaths to the top, and archaic because We have tech that makes it pointless - but the psychopaths hide and suppress it avidly. They don't want to lose that tool.
It actually still is. Those who go this route are usually martyrs.
I dispute that coercion is "agreement." To agree, One has to be coming from fully informed consent.
You didn't mention ignorance in your initial statement. You said
I would submit that if one is being coerced, one is likely not ignorant as one chooses to bend the knee to escape the threat.
In that frame, one does have a choice. Most prefer to bend the knee and collect their bribery instead of becoming a martyr.
And I contend that it is the consent that is destroyed, fully informed or not, in coercion. That's not a free choice. Consent implies no imposed consequences. Avoiding consequences is not consent.
Folks like Ghandi, Martin Luther King etc. are examples that one has consent under coercion.
I suggest that that is not (lack of) consent. That is refusing to be coerced. Yes, there is a choice between being bullied or doing what is demanded of One, but consent is not involved.
Consent is given freely, with no coercion. If it is coercion, its a choice.