[Dylan16807]

If a private company does it, then it's not socialist, and no taboo gets invoked. Very different from the government doing it.

[maxerickson]

I'm arguing that the difference is imaginary.

[brightball]

Well, you'd be wrong. A business has earned revenues that its owners can spend or use for benefits however they please. A business can't force people to pay for their services. A government can.

[maxerickson]

If you look at existing employment relationships, it also depends a great deal on how much leverage the employees have, not just on what pleases owners.