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Donald Ian Rankin

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11. What makes you think not employing someone at all is moral?

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 08:56 AM

Mar 2014

If you are starving, and one person offers you a crap job and the other doesn't offer you a job, the former is doing more to help you than the latter - yet, by your logic, the former is acting immorally and the latter is not.

The obligation to offer charity to those who need it is nothing to do with whether or not you employ them. The moral obligation employers have towards their employees is the same obligation everyone has to everyone else: 1) to pay taxes that will go to fund unemployment benefit if they choose not to work, and 2) to abide by the law, including minimum wage laws, in their dealings.

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“No business which depends for existence......... [View all] Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 OP

I believe statements like that are almost considered treason in today's corporately djean111 Mar 2014 #1

Ichingcarpenter Diclotican Mar 2014 #2

K&R ReRe Mar 2014 #3

I don't think that "offering very low wages is evil" makes sense. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #4

If you need to take care of yourself and your family you are *not* in a position cui bono Mar 2014 #5

I'm afraid the first part of that makes no sense at all. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #6

You aren't taking into account that the companies can well afford to up the pay cui bono Mar 2014 #7

Here's why that is incorrect Glitterati Mar 2014 #9

Wage Slavery is what you are talking about? Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #12

Wage slavery is a contradiction in terms. Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #13

The notion of wage slavery, taken reasonably, is actually rather difficult to refute Ichingcarpenter Mar 2014 #15

You have never been in the "lower classes" permanently Stargazer99 Mar 2014 #8

What makes you think paying an employee not enough to live is moral? Stargazer99 Mar 2014 #10

What makes you think not employing someone at all is moral? Donald Ian Rankin Mar 2014 #11

That's a false choice. Giving them no job or giving them a shitty job. cui bono Mar 2014 #14

somewhere I read, or heard onethatcares Mar 2014 #16

Dang, I thought it was Campaign Obama Doctor_J Mar 2014 #17