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Ok, here goes, basic question:
At what point should an employer be somewhat responsible for providing a wage to its workers?
In between 1978 and 2014, inflation-adjusted CEO pay increased by almost 1,000%, according to a report released on Sunday by the Economic Policy Institute. Meanwhile, typical workers in the U.S. saw a pay raise of just 11% during that same period.
originally posted by: Kali74
a reply to: JinMI
Labor is pretty much outside the free market and it shouldn't be, that's how tax payers end up subsidizing businesses with food stamps etc...
At what point should an employer be somewhat responsible for providing a wage to its workers?
Can/should something be put in place to provide an incentive for good ethics practice within a private business? Should those with bad ethics be forced or face a penalty?
originally posted by: JoshuaCox
a reply to: xenthuin
As over paid as a lot of government workers are, how exactly do small buisness do best for their employees??
You only get two options...
Deregulate everything and trust big buisness to "do the right thing" , and they are ONLY motivated by profit margarine and society as a whole doesn't get any say so on how they run their buisness...because remember they are deregulated..
And quite conveniently the most profitable thing seems to usually be the worst for their rank and file employees..
Or two trust the government to regulate all of that because ATLEAST they are beholden to us through the election process..
originally posted by: JinMI
... to provide an incentive for good ethics practice...
originally posted by: namelesss
Ethics cannot be 'chosen' nor can they be legislated.
'Ethics';
"Do NOT do to others what you would not have done to you!"
is rooted in unconditional (transcendental) Love/Enlightenment.
It has to come from 'within' and is something that we 'become', a state of being.
The 'ethics of capitalism' seems to be an oxymoron. *__-