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As a society, should we really tolerate businesses who can only exist via exploitation?
by 49531 7y ago
As a society, should we really tolerate businesses who can only exist via exploitation?
- moate 7y agoThis is the point that really needs to be driven home. "But what about all the jobs that will close when we make better labor standards" should always be met with "these companies shouldn't exist in that form". Taken to an extreme: Were abolitionists more concerned with freeing slaves from the labor abuses they were living under, or the long term prospects of the plantations and their business models? Sometimes the business isn't worth the social costs.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoWow, jumping right to slavery. Next, Nazis? My mother-in-law lived thru the invention of the 'minimum wage' in the US. She saw the damage it did, the thousands out of work because their job wasn't worth minimum pay. The temporary jobs disappearing, part-time workers fired. And full-time workers working double-jobs to do the work of the missing low-paid workers. It was indeed a hard time. Better times came after the minimum wage. But to cavalierly dismiss jobs with "these companies shouldn't exist" sounds a lot like "let them eat cake".