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There's an analogy, but it's a weak one. Again, money isn't people. Abusing labor laws gets people killed directly. Failure of a government to collect enough ta

There's an analogy, but it's a weak one. Again, money isn't people. Abusing labor laws gets people killed directly. Failure of a government to collect enough tax can get people harmed or killed indirectly, but it's the government's responsibility to set tax policy, not a corporation's.

jakelazaroff 8y ago
It's also the government's responsibility to set labor laws, but this doesn't absolve companies for mistreating their workers.
- fixermark 8y ago
  It is a company's responsibility to follow laws. It is not, however, a company's responsibility to build highways, or to figure out how to finance the building of said highways, or to set up and fund public education, or to hire and pay police, is the point. When it becomes a company's responsibility to do so, we march gleefully into one of several dystopian cyberpunk science fictions (pick your favorite) ;)
  - falcolas 8y ago
    Companies, however, do take full advantage of the infrastructure built by the government using tax dollars, both directly and indirectly. For example, Google takes advantage of government contracts and grants, paid for by taxes. They also take advantage of the highway, city, water, power, education, housing, copyright and trademark laws, unemployment insurance, and legal (that is, the court system) infrastructure largely built and paid for (directly, by grants, or subsidies) using taxes.
    - fixermark 8y ago
      And they pay taxes for the privilege (either directly or indirectly, by paying employees who pay taxes).
    - manigandham 8y ago
      That's just circular logic. Google/people take advantage of things paid for by taxes, because they paid those taxes.
PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago
If I have to work 8 hours a day to make 6 hours of income because of tax, then 25% of the risk of me being killed in a day is because of the tax. Probably more, because the extra 2 hours of work will be while I'm more tired and will lead to me being more tired on the trip home than leaving after 6 hours of work.

jakelazaroff 8y ago

It's also the government's responsibility to set labor laws, but this doesn't absolve companies for mistreating their workers.

fixermark 8y ago
It is a company's responsibility to follow laws. It is not, however, a company's responsibility to build highways, or to figure out how to finance the building of said highways, or to set up and fund public education, or to hire and pay police, is the point. When it becomes a company's responsibility to do so, we march gleefully into one of several dystopian cyberpunk science fictions (pick your favorite) ;)
- falcolas 8y ago
  Companies, however, do take full advantage of the infrastructure built by the government using tax dollars, both directly and indirectly. For example, Google takes advantage of government contracts and grants, paid for by taxes. They also take advantage of the highway, city, water, power, education, housing, copyright and trademark laws, unemployment insurance, and legal (that is, the court system) infrastructure largely built and paid for (directly, by grants, or subsidies) using taxes.
  - fixermark 8y ago
    And they pay taxes for the privilege (either directly or indirectly, by paying employees who pay taxes).
  - manigandham 8y ago
    That's just circular logic. Google/people take advantage of things paid for by taxes, because they paid those taxes.

PurpleBoxDragon 8y ago

If I have to work 8 hours a day to make 6 hours of income because of tax, then 25% of the risk of me being killed in a day is because of the tax. Probably more, because the extra 2 hours of work will be while I'm more tired and will lead to me being more tired on the trip home than leaving after 6 hours of work.