[GhostVII]

Yea, so the company provides a significant benefit, because without them the person would starve. I don't see why any of that is the companies problem, should they pay people more money just to be nice? The governments job is to ensure that regulations allow people to switch jobs without putting their family in jeopardy by having unemployment benefits, food stamps, etc, not the companies job.

[coldtea]

>Yea, so the company provides a significant benefit, because without them the person would starve. I don't see why any of that is the companies problem, should they pay people more money just to be nice

Yes.

[Jabanga]

You want to compel people to be nice, by force of government?

[coldtea]

Better than compelling them to be selfish.

[Jabanga]

Of course, but that's not the alternative to what you propose.

[coldtea]

I think it is, that's the "free market" key value, going as back as Adam Smith (e.g. "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.").

[Jabanga]

Nothing in the Adam Smith quote suggests compulsion. There is a very real difference between compelling someone to do something by threatening to throw them in prison, and leaving someone alone, and they deciding to do something out of self-interest.

Remember, the law is not benign.

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/enforci...