 In reply, some philosophers stress the kinds of freedoms that someone in Charlie’s position retains under the imagined tax regime, freedoms which make it absurd (and offensive), in the view of these philosophers, to compare their position to that of a slave. The tax regime we have described leaves the decision about how much to work to Charlie. It leaves the decision about what kind of job to do to Charlie. In short, taxation of labor incomes does not necessarily deny the worker who is taxed basic control over whether and how they deploy their talents (see especially Christman 1991); and so, according to this argument, there is nothing really objectionable about using such taxation to enact a social minimum. Yes, self-ownership has been limited; but, so the argument goes, nothing essential to personal liberty or self-determination has thereby been diminished.