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>Taking a job because the alternative is to starve is still a consensual interaction.

If someone points a gun at you and tells you to work, your choice is obedience or death.

If someone hoards all the food and tells you to work for it, your choice is obedience or death.

In what way are these meaningfully different?

>We can go out into the wilderness, and live off the land

No you can't, because the tyrant owns all the land and calls the police if you try to take any of their food.



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