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Do you not see the negative repercussions for businesses serving the public to be allowed to make a moral judgement on who they do business with?
by slykat 7y ago
Do you not see the negative repercussions for businesses serving the public to be allowed to make a moral judgement on who they do business with?
- drjesusphd 7y agoIf that's the case then there's no room whatsoever for capitalism to be anything other than an amoral system we should be ashamed of. Vote with your dollar. You're allowed to make your own moral choices and refuse to contribute to evil.
- manigandham 7y agoCapitalism is nothing but an economic system where you own the means to production. There is no inherent morality. Nobody has an issue with you making choices and voting with your dollars. The issue is forcing those choices on everyone else (as in a business, especially as a non-owner) through your own interpretation of morality.
- chipotle_coyote 7y agoI'm not an economist, but I'm pretty sure the system where workers own the means of production isn't capitalism.
- manigandham 7y agoIt refers to "you" vs the state. You create a factory or a business or a new patent and you're responsible. You gain the profits or suffer the losses and nobody else can take it from you. Workers are obviously not business owners, but they do own their own labor and are free to take whatever job they want, not be assigned to it from some central authority.
- drjesusphd 7y ago> There is no inherent morality. Not inherent; we have to make it so. Capitalism dominates, what, 80% of our waking lives? The idea that morality should only be relegated to the other 20% is madness.
- manigandham 7y agoDominates? I don’t even know what means. It’s an economic system. What is the other 20% exactly?