Re:The Wayforward Machine
by smsm42 on Sunday October 03, 2021 @03:55AM
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Worse yet, almost nobody of the people who say "these are private companies, they can do anything they want" actually believes that. If Google said one day they are stopping hiring women in technical positions, because men are superior technically, they'd cry for government regulators to step in in a second. If any grocery store decided to refuse service to people of certain race, them being a private business wouldn't stop the regulators from coming in, and everybody from calling that to happen, and none of those people would stand in the way.
In fact, we already have a myriad of regulations restricting private companies in hiring, firing, conducting business, negotiating with workforce, managing working conditions, and pretty much any interactions with the public and other businesses. There's not a single company that is not bound by dozens if not hundreds of these regulations. Those companies being private companies never prevented it. You may welcome it or you may lament it, but it's undeniably how things are done in the US - private companies are subject to public regulation. It's not something we're just introducing, it's something that existed since forever.
There are true libertarians that consistently oppose any regulation of private business. About 2% of them, judging by election results, and about 0% represented in any legislative or executive body above the tiniest of city councils. The other 98% should lay the "private companies" argument aside because they're just embarrassing themselves with it. That argument has been dead for centuries, and if you want to resuscitate it, you have to deal with hundreds of years history of regulation first, before you can wield it again.
In fact, we already have a myriad of regulations restricting private companies in hiring, firing, conducting business, negotiating with workforce, managing working conditions, and pretty much any interactions with the public and other businesses. There's not a single company that is not bound by dozens if not hundreds of these regulations. Those companies being private companies never prevented it. You may welcome it or you may lament it, but it's undeniably how things are done in the US - private companies are subject to public regulation. It's not something we're just introducing, it's something that existed since forever.
There are true libertarians that consistently oppose any regulation of private business. About 2% of them, judging by election results, and about 0% represented in any legislative or executive body above the tiniest of city councils. The other 98% should lay the "private companies" argument aside because they're just embarrassing themselves with it. That argument has been dead for centuries, and if you want to resuscitate it, you have to deal with hundreds of years history of regulation first, before you can wield it again.