Your life was your property, not the states. Your name and reputation, your abilities and skills are your property. Your religious and political beliefs, your social affiliations are your property. The founders of our nation were quick to point out that the only reason for government was to protect property. The transfer of property rights from the private to the public sector affects every segment of our society.
Doctors can no longer set their own fees in many cases.
Medicaid and Medicare have taken care of that. Employers often cannot set their own wage scale or choose whom they hire. The establishing of minimum, and in some cases maximum, wage rates has been usurped by government. Affirmative action determine the quality and status of the labor force. We as Americans have largely forgotten those basic principles.