Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ...
by lliamander on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:10PM
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That just means that more businesses fail that could have otherwise succeeded.
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Re:Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation backtracks on one-year ...
by bobthepanda on Tuesday February 05, 2019 @08:35PM
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You could say the same thing about minimum wage, safety and environmental regulations, child labor laws, workers taking weekends, etc.
At some point, as a society we set a minimum bar on what kind of successful businesses we want to employ people. What that minimum bar is can be debated, but "more businesses will fail" is not exactly a straightforward indicator of the value of a regulation.
Plus, certain types of labor laws, particularly those around leave, only apply to businesses above a certain size.