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> Do you oppose all employer regulations then? Yes. > What do you think should happen if two consenting adults, one of which is desperate for food, agree to a
by georgewsinger 4y ago
> Do you oppose all employer regulations then?
Yes.
> What do you think should happen if two consenting adults, one of which is desperate for food, agree to an arrangement where one is paid 3 dollars per hour in exchange for work?
I think this should be legal, for if it were illegal, then someone would be getting paid $0/hour (which is less than $3/hour) for no work being done at all.
To cut to the chase: you should just ask me what should happen if someone has exhausted all avenues for sustenance, and failed. Then what should they do? Should they starve?
My answer is: no, it would be morally justified for them to steal resources (i.e. food) from other non-consenting adults in order for them not to die under extreme circumstances like this. But notice that we'd still deem it as "justified theft" (where the theft is still intrinsically wrong, but justified under the extreme circumstances).
Fortunately, "extreme circumstances" are not the conditions we're living under in developed Western countries, where even the poorest people live fabulously wealthy in comparison to almost everyone in human history.
In particular, there doesn't seem to be any need to mandate (under literal threat of kidnap & imprisonment) that people not work more than 9 months per year. That sounds totally insane, especially since no one is forcing anyone to work 12 months per year anyway.
- Buttons840 4y agoI see where you're coming from. I proposed it as an idea, and specifically an alternative idea to forever raising minimum wage over the decades. In that regard your counter argument of "eliminate minimum wage and all regulations" is outside the realm I was arguing in.