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This sort of freedom only benefits capitalists, at the expense of everyday people, and threatens democracy itself. The employer-employee relationship is not a p
by solardev 3y ago
This sort of freedom only benefits capitalists, at the expense of everyday people, and threatens democracy itself. The employer-employee relationship is not a partnership of equals, especially in places like the US where lack of employment is pretty much a slow death sentence.
A company isn't just a bunch of people who want to work with each other, unless it's structured as a worker owned coop, partnership, or similar. More often than not it's a legal institution created for the express purpose of extracting profit by extracting value out of poorer people's labor. There's no inherent "freedom" for any such entity, only what society chooses to give it.
- janice1999 3y agoAgreed. OP is rather naive. Would he support companies not choosing to employ LGBT people, Muslims, Jews etc? There are reasons people fought for employee protection and they're rooted in exploitation, discrimination and, in the case of Pinkertons and anti-union activity, the literal murder of workers by powerful employers and the state.
- ITB 3y agoI wouldn’t personally support those companies, and I think most others wouldn’t either. But I think if a company was made of women who only want to hire women, that’s okay. Some laws are meant to bring fairness at a time of egregious unfairness. But don’t need to be laws forever. That doesn’t mean the problem will inevitably return without enforcement.