You go to work for some company, get paid a salary to create a product, the leave later.

That's selling your labor, once you leave that can't just keep claiming you work there and plaster your face all over the building because people liked you more than them.

Almost like we as people recognize there are limits to what businesses can do with contracts, but only apply it sometimes and other times just say "its what every industry does, so clearly its fair and we must abide by it!"

This isn't a call to action, its simply musing that contracts are given this deified power by people that they are unbreakable and unquestionable and we must simply accept them as the way things must be, when they are often just another tool corporations use to screw us over.