Re: Should employers have the freedom to hire/fire for any reason they wish
And all of those things can largely be attributed to some fashion to decisions and choices that individual has made throughout the life.
Nonsense. Not everyone grows up in a wealthy family. Not everyone grows up in a healthy family. We don't get to pick and choose our family or our family's finances, we're born into them.
I don't think he misunderstands the word "freedom", even if I disagree with some of his points, but rather I think YOU misunderstand what he means by it.
You seem to be in the group that thinks "Freedom" is a notion of everyone has an equal ability to do what they want at any given tiem. He seems to be talking about freedom of oppertunity in a generalized sense. Having freedom doesn't guarantee you that you have a good family life, or that you've taken action to keep your credit well enough to get a loan, or anything else. It simply guarantees that you can try and do everything that's within your own power.
I disagree with you. I believe he's talking about freedom in the sense of employers being free to determine who they employ without government regulation. In this way, he is not talking about freedom, he is talking about resting all power in the job market to the employer. That's not freedom.
Freedom doesn't guarantee you someone else giving you money. Freedom doesn't guarantee you no kids you have to feed or family members you have to care for. Freedom doesn't give you a job or save you money.
Let's take that a step further then. Freedom doesn't guarantee you receiving money for what you produce or service you provide. Freedom doesn't guarantee you security for your business and it doesn't guarantee you protection from those who would steal your ideas and pass them off as your own.
Tell me, reading his post again, do you really think he's advocating a system where I can just walk into his store, take what I want and leave without worrying about repercussions? I doubt it. The way you're talking, you want freedom for employers, but not for those who would consume the product. No, for that I suspect you would advocate for restriction of "freedom" to protect the hard work and investment of the employer (as would I).
You're notion of "freedom" seems to be forcing others to do something for people.
No, my stance is that transferring power from employee to employer is not guaranteeing anyone freedom, so much as it is simply shifting power. Unless either of you surprise me by advocating freedom for the consumer to take without repercussion, you're not really talking about advocating freedom. Because freedom is not freedom if it benefits one while negatively affecting another.
They make eye drops for that.
I'd prefer not to need them, but we'll see.
Every person on the face of the planet must choose to provide for themselves and their family or to allow them to die.
Exactly, so you saying one doesn't have to work in a particular industry while advocating all employers be allowed to hire and fire at will is simply a distraction.
You would prefer that Chinese workers toil in the fields for $.05 an hour?
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I'm not sure why you think that reply helped you. My point is there is little incentive to hire workers at competitive wages when they can simply outsource for a mere fraction of the cost.
Many people boycott Walmart because of perceived injustices it commits against its workers and suppliers. Many more do not hold this belief.
Which directly refutes your claim that employers with poor employment policies will be negatively affected.
The opposite is true as well.
Agreed, but not always. Your point, however, was that poor employment policies will cost money, thereby strongly suggesting fair employment will still be had. My point is that is simply not the case.
If you owned a business you would quickly realize that employers by no means have all the power.
But you're pushing a system which greatly increases the power of the employer. That's my point.
Yet the employer has all of the power? Incredible!
I'm not saying they have all the power NOW, I'm saying you're advocating a system which grants them all the power.
Attempting to make them so is tyrannical because you have to forcefully pull some down to push others up.
I agree individuals are not equal, but, inherently, demographics mostly are.