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If a company is found to be discriminating by protected class, they are in big trouble. Sure, it can be difficult to catch. But what is your point exactly? Mar
by dwaltrip 6y ago
If a company is found to be discriminating by protected class, they are in big trouble. Sure, it can be difficult to catch. But what is your point exactly?
Markets currently play a massive role in determining prices across our entire society. A wage is a price paid for an individual's labor.
Labor markets are not perfect. No market is (despite the wailings of the ideologues). We try to fix these issues with specific policies and regulations. There is plenty more work to do here. But if you are advocating for the abolishment of labor markets entirely, I would love to see the details of your proposal. I don't know of any society today that has managed to do so.
- 6gvONxR4sf7o 6y agoThe point is that “the markets don’t work that way” isn’t an argument that “society shouldn’t work that way.” We intercede in the case of protected classes because “economics therefore morality” isn’t a sound argument.
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- dwaltrip 6y agoOk fair enough. Do you grant that some interventions are more practical and cleanly implementable than others? Perhaps the assumption in the original comment is that legally restricting market discrimination for wages by region may not be practical and / or would have significant harmful side effects. I would need to give the idea more thought. It certainly seems a far more complex and less clear-cut matter than the existing protected classes.