RE: Labor Unions - are you for or against it and why?
August 4, 2011 at 12:17 pm
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2011 at 1:20 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Void, I absolutely understand your position on things like minimum wages, etc. It is completely one-sided, and infringes upon the employer. However. If we wish to avoid infringing upon him in this manner, if we really want to abolish things like minimum wage, then we need to accept responsibility for the effects of that action. You can't hand wave it away and say that the market would correct itself, and the prices of goods would fall. There have always been those among us who have been exploited. Relaxing legislation against the exploitative party has never......never, made them stop exploiting people. They simply shift their operations.
We have a right to operate a business, yes. But only within the confines of the law. We have progressively refined these laws over time in an attempt to deal with situations as they arose. In what way would eliminating our ability to continue this discussion (with the authority of government as support) improve our collective lot in life. In what way would this safeguard your individual liberties? Why are the examples of laws or authority over business that you support not infringements upon business, or infringements upon individual rights?
Can you give me an example of any law which does not infringe upon someones individual liberty?
(Libertarianism must be a different beast in other countries, sometimes I get the feeling that we're not even talking about the same platform when we discuss issues like these)
-Scratch this whole line of questioning, read a ton of your posts, definitely a different beast.-
We have a right to operate a business, yes. But only within the confines of the law. We have progressively refined these laws over time in an attempt to deal with situations as they arose. In what way would eliminating our ability to continue this discussion (with the authority of government as support) improve our collective lot in life. In what way would this safeguard your individual liberties? Why are the examples of laws or authority over business that you support not infringements upon business, or infringements upon individual rights?
Can you give me an example of any law which does not infringe upon someones individual liberty?
(Libertarianism must be a different beast in other countries, sometimes I get the feeling that we're not even talking about the same platform when we discuss issues like these)
-Scratch this whole line of questioning, read a ton of your posts, definitely a different beast.-
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