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You are starting your argument off with two entirely different concepts. Employees are paid for their work because they are employees. Non-consensual sex is the explicit lack of agreement to be in the situation.
Please, tell me WHY it is unethical to employ people? How is it exploitive to run a business? At what point does a company make so much money that it's unethical for them to continue doing business?
I'm on board with a coop and democratically run operations. When in history has any company ever succeeded as such? To my knowledge, these are locally run organizations with no ability to scale up. So, how do we end up with big nation and world changing projects? Is it your belief that we shouldn't have large scale projects? We shouldn't have corporations like Google or Caterpillar or Visa? Is it your belief that we ~~should~~ must destroy everything we know and go back to village life? Are these real things that you think have to happen or is this in an idealistic world? How do you take what we have now and make it into your image?
Do you think merely agreeing to something makes the arrangement acceptable? A mugger sticks a gun to my head and says, "give me your wallet or I'll kill you." I give him my wallet. Was that actually a real, consensual choice? Of course not, agreement is a necessary condition for a fair contract, but not a sufficient one.
If you're doing the work, you're entitled to the fruits of your labor. Slavery is the exact inverse of that, where you are entitled to none of the fruits of your labor.
Capitalism tries to split the difference, where depending on a complex set of contractual agreements of dubious legitimacy, you are entitled to some arbitrary amount of fruit for your labor.
There are degrees of severity of course, some relationships are far more exploitative than others.
There isn't a magical number where a business becomes unethically profitable. The issue with Capitalism isn't one of degree. It's not like a bath that's too hot, where the only issue is the temperature needs to be lowered.
If your business operates in a way that is undemocratic, it's unethical. Doesn't matter if all the employees agreed to it, doesn't matter if they all signed contracts permitting it, doesn't matter that the legal system allows the business to operate like that.
Now of course, as I said, there are degrees. A mom & pop flower shop that employs local high school kids as part time workers, pays them well, and treats them nicely, that's not a huge issue. Unethical still, but not terrible. It's like cheating on a middle school pop quiz, still wrong, but extremely minor.
You also brought up the issue of practicality. This requires a lot of depth to respond to, so would you prefer to pivot to that, or stay on the more theoretical questions about Capitalism and exploitation?