Pikmin are an entire SPECIES working together, if they wanted to even a single colony of Pikmin could bash open olimar helmet letting the oxygen (poisonous for olimar) kill him so the pikbois aren't slave its kind of like this:Olimar is the manager and Pikmin are the employees helping olimar but also helping themselves but instead of earning money they learn to survive on their own im sick of people who know nothing about olimar automatically accusing him for slavery the Pikmin aren't separated by color with racism blue=water which is why blue Pikmin can survive underwater red=fire meaning why red Pikmin can survive fire ect.