Re:Tim Cook Faces Surprising Employee Unrest at Apple
by lotsofpulp on Saturday September 18, 2021 @09:43AM
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These kinds of arguments are pointless because laws need to be simple and avoid unnecessary cliffs in defining who or what is being affected.
The law is not going to work if it says “the most profitable companies need to pay for 2 people when 1 will do”. And then how does it work if profits fluctuate?
It is simply much easier for the government to pay to accomplish whatever goal it wants, and at the same time does not obfuscate the price of achieving that goal. If the government wants to help deaf people be employed, then the government should pay an interpreter to help the deaf person be employed.
Is that not much simpler than arbitrarily requiring various other entities to comply with nebulous requirements and then spend resources policing them?
Of course, it is cheaper for the government to do the latter, and then spend more money policing them since in the former situation, it is easy to project how much the government will need to spend, and in the latter, the government can use some bullshit assumptions to make up whatever budget they want.
The law is not going to work if it says “the most profitable companies need to pay for 2 people when 1 will do”. And then how does it work if profits fluctuate?
It is simply much easier for the government to pay to accomplish whatever goal it wants, and at the same time does not obfuscate the price of achieving that goal. If the government wants to help deaf people be employed, then the government should pay an interpreter to help the deaf person be employed.
Is that not much simpler than arbitrarily requiring various other entities to comply with nebulous requirements and then spend resources policing them?
Of course, it is cheaper for the government to do the latter, and then spend more money policing them since in the former situation, it is easy to project how much the government will need to spend, and in the latter, the government can use some bullshit assumptions to make up whatever budget they want.