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"The reality is that business owners must recruit workers and not dragoon them and chain them to their workplaces. Nor are business owners interested in harming
by scdoshi 13y ago
"The reality is that business owners must recruit workers and not dragoon them and chain them to their workplaces. Nor are business owners interested in harming either their workers or their customers. If they do, normal civil and commercial law will suffice."
It's funny how people forget that labour laws came up to fulfil a need, after a lot of struggle. Sure, sometimes they can go too far, but they weren't implemented on a whim.
People were actually beaten and killed[1][2]. People died because of poor working conditions and no safety regulations[3].
The above-mentioned reality only exists when workers have choice, in most real market conditions, that is not always true.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_the_Overpass
[2] http://www.forgottenshow.net/story.html http://www.forgottenshow.net/story.html
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triangle_Shirtwaist_Factory_fi...