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Ichingcarpenter

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12. Wage Slavery is what you are talking about?

Reply to Donald Ian Rankin (Reply #6)

Sat Mar 8, 2014, 01:17 PM

Mar 2014

Cicero wrote in his De Officiis that

whoever gives his labor for money sells himself and puts himself in the rank of slaves.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wage_slavery

Doesn't sound like what FDR called a 'living wage'

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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