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In your view, would it be morally justified to take poor wage-workers as slaves? Seeing as they don't have freedom anyway, what's the harm done in locking them
by jpttsn 10y ago
In your view, would it be morally justified to take poor wage-workers as slaves? Seeing as they don't have freedom anyway, what's the harm done in locking them up?
- yorwba 10y agoThey may not have the freedom to choose their work, but also taking away their freedom of movement is just cruel.
- jpttsn 10y agoBut if they don't have the freedom to quit their jobs I mean, why not just stop paying them and stop letting them go home? Would anyone be worse off?
- ZeroGravitas 10y agoMost slaves, through history and today, aren't kept chained up. There are complex social institutions keeping them in their place and making it futile to escape.
- eli_gottlieb 10y agoNo, it would be morally justified to lock up those who monopolize the means of subsistence and production. Or rather, to let them free after legally removing their titles and distributing those means to everyone on a usufruct/personal-usage basis. Firms can be run as cooperatives, land usage managed by municipalities.