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you're moralizing altogether too hard. The argument isn't that workers should be FREE of consequences, it's that the consequences are disproportionately on them for the decisions of others. This is an argument of fact, and whatever you think may be the correct moral response to this is up to you, but I think it's definitely true that holders of capital have more power in employment decisions than laborer and that this works out badly for the laborers because they suffer from coordination problems in bargaining.
I don't regard freedom as a morally desirable state, but rather a state necessary to morality.
And the author doesn't make that argument. He/she states that obligations such as "debts, families, and of course social obligations" put workers in a weaker bargaining position. The argument is heavily detached from its implications, but those implications are no less there for it - until workers are without such obligation, without the need to work for food and board, they are in a state of coercion. Until the decisions of workers do not actually matter, they - being in a state of coercion - have little freedom of their own.
The author is the one moralizing, with cautious implications, exacting connotations, and carefully evaded implications. My response is merely to point out what it is.
The word 'coercion' might be slipping in some unwarranted connotations, but this seems roughly correct to me. There's a reason that having enough wealth saved up to live comfortably for an extended period of time is popularly known as having 'f**k you money'.