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Corporations shouldn't have the responsibility of providing a minimum standard of living to their employees, they should have the responsibility of paying their
by ralusek 7y ago
Corporations shouldn't have the responsibility of providing a minimum standard of living to their employees, they should have the responsibility of paying their employees what their employees agreed to work for.
If their employees have their back against the wall and are literally unable to do anything to change their situation, that is a more general societal problem.
UBI is, in my opinion, a monumentally superior solution than trying to micromanage the nature of contracts that people are capable of negotiating between one another.
- bduerst 7y agoThis is true in a vaccuum. Unfortunately when you look at the history of the U.S., it's the corporations that have taken the burden of providing for U.S. workers. Other developed nations have their government supporting it's citizens, not corporations.
- AnthonyMouse 7y agoHow is that an argument against replacing these rules with a UBI?
- ralusek 7y agoThe US spends over 2 trillion a year on social welfare services, and that's just federally.