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Something being widely practiced doesn't make it necessarily good or bad though. At-will being the global norm is not inherent evidence that it is productive, j
by missedthecue 5y ago
Something being widely practiced doesn't make it necessarily good or bad though. At-will being the global norm is not inherent evidence that it is productive, just, or consistent policy.
The low hanging fruit analogies are slavery, limited suffrage, and laws against homosexual civil unions, all of which were global norms at one point.
- woodruffw 5y agoCertainly. But I think this is missing the point: the argument isn't that employment protections are good because they're widespread; the argument is that employment protections are good and their wide-spreadness is a response to a perceived need (cf. "not sure this is something that needs fixing"). The positive argument is that it's already a fixture and an agreed-upon solution in most of the developed world. The normative argument, i.e. that it's good, is in the next two paragraphs.