[teawrecks]

This is a fine mentality when you're running a lemonade stand, but gets complicated when you're talking about a person's livelihood in a country where something like 60% of people are living paycheck to paycheck. If ONLY we lives in a society that valued itself over the profits of a few individuals.

[sneak]

It's nothing to do with livelihood and everything to do with the liquidity of the labor market.

If a person can get another job immediately, you aren't harming them by declining to continue to be a customer. In fact, you employing them is no power over them at all (unless you were overpaying them relative to their market value).

[octodog]

> If a person can get another job immediately

This does not happen in reality. There are transactional costs involved in job searching plus additional costs that come from onboarding.

[sneak]

It regularly happens in reality. I know people who have walked out of one job, crossed a street, and walked in to another less than a half hour later. With construction, bartenders, kitchen and waitstaff, bussers, and security it is ridiculously common.

It becomes more common the lower skill the job becomes, as the fungibility of the worker increases.