(February 3, 2015 at 1:43 pm)Minimalist Wrote: Quote:“I think it’s one I can illustrate the point,” Tillis told the women. “I said, I don’t have any problem with Starbucks if they choose to opt out of this policy as long as the post a sign that says ‘We don’t require our employees to wash their hands after leaving the restrooms.’ The market will take care of that.”
That is an astoundingly stupid stance for him to take.
If a business can opt out of policy X and save money, they will. He maintains that omniscient consumers will know this and the market will solve the problem. Two issues with this:
1) What do consumers do when
every business opts out to save money? Where's your invisible hand, now?
2) He states they would have to post a sign saying they opted out. That sounds like
regulation. What the fuck? His problem is, there are too many regulations, and his solution is to
keep those regulations and add more on top of them stating how they're optional?
Seriously, what's more complicated?
- Employees must wash their hands after using the restroom, or
- Employees must wash their hands after using the restroom or not, but if they don't, the store has to put up a sign saying so.
Fucking hell, this isn't even hard.