Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires About Salary History

Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by hackuser on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:06AM (#13453686)

That's the logical extreme, but that is not what free market economists actually say. The GP is accurate.

The free market is a great tool, but no tool is universal.

Why are we more concerned that we stick to an ideology - it's treated as a fundamentalist religion, treated as the solution to every problem and something with which any disagreement or deviation must be shot down - and not the people who are rich or poor, safe or suffering, educated or not, healthy or not, etc.

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Re:Philadelphia Poised to Ban Employers from Asking Hires Ab... by meanduck on Sunday January 22, 2017 @12:45AM (#13453805)

There is no such thing as "free market economists". That was halfly my point. They are statists in disguise.

> Why are we more concerned that we stick to an ideology - it's treated as a fundamentalist religion, treated as the solution to every problem and something with which any disagreement or deviation must be shot down - and not the people who are rich or poor, safe or suffering, educated or not, healthy or not, etc.

You are imagining. I am claiming no such things.

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