We live by the myth that the employer/employee relationship is voluntary. Fundamentally, you can't fire your employer. If you quit, he loses very little, but you lose a lot.
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The fact that you can’t fire your employer doesn’t mean the employer/employee relationship isn’t voluntary, does it?
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It means there's an enormous power asymmetry, which makes the "voluntary" description inapplicable, unless you're a libertarian.
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Unless you’re being forced to take or stay in the job it is indeed voluntary. If it weren’t voluntary you couldn’t even choose to apply for or take the job in the first place.
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Like some people “choose” not to be able to afford health care! Jobs are a matter of income, income is a matter of life and death
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But I guess you can voluntarily choose to die, if given no other choice
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This is the base problem with libertarians: they don’t believe others’ lives are of significance. They’re just fancy sociopaths.
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Libertarians are the type of people who read Rumplestiltskin and conclude that he was the real victim in the story. The poor girl who he made a deal with him to avoid dying broke their contract after all.
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It’s almost as if they’ve earned the right to hire and employ who they want.
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The right to operate a business comes from a government-issued business licence, the enforcement power of which ultimately comes from the public. Businesses have no enshrined right to operate in an anti-social manner. Yet, we allow many to do just that for profit.
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Someone who assumes the debt, risk, and obstacles involved with starting a business should be able to employ who they see fit. Firing someone isn’t “anti-social”, no more than it would be for an employee deciding to quit and go elsewhere.
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Did I say firing someome was anti-social or they couldnt hire who they want? No. What I said is businesses who engage in anti-social behaviour, like (but not limited to): price fixing, environmental degradation, etc... ...shouldn't be allowed to do so under penalty.
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Sure, I agree. I was responding to a post likening “petty” business owners to dictators.
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I believe we may be thinking of different business sizes. International businesses seem to operate outside of the law in many ways and use their influence and capital to distort democracy. I do not care for them. Entrepreneurs on the other hand, are a vital part of society.
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