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Do I have a moral obligation to pay said employee more than the current value he is providing to me? Now, most economists would say, "No," I seriously doubt th
by nhaehnle 13y ago
Do I have a moral obligation to pay said employee more than the current value he is providing to me? Now, most economists would say, "No,"
I seriously doubt that. After having gotten to know some actual economists (you know, academics; not the ones who pretend to know about economics on TV) I have learned that most of them are actually quite different from the "hooray free markets all the way" stereotype.
In fact, I would bet that most of them will say that you do have a moral obligation, and many (perhaps most) will say that it also makes economic sense to help an under-performing employee through a bad period. Real economists don't emphasize the short term.
- viscanti 13y agoI think what's lost here is that they're really more of a market place. It's similar to arguing that ebay has a moral obligation to make sure that people selling things there make enough per hour. I'm not sure I'd agree with that. It's not that Uber is paying $21 an hour. It's that they're allowing the driver to go on and be matched with people who want that service. It might average out to $21 an hour for some set of hours (I imagine it's higher on the weekends and lower at low peak times). The fact you can back out dollars per hour from someone providing services on a marketplace doesn't really change things.