tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post86769487773572805..comments2023-10-16T08:06:02.455-06:00Comments on Larry Hubich's Blog: Exploitation of young workers in SaskatchewanLarry Hubichhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17140136865665292501noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-15347695159339389182011-11-10T07:55:19.720-06:002011-11-10T07:55:19.720-06:00Hi CarmenT,
Thanks for your comment and thanks fo...Hi CarmenT,<br /><br />Thanks for your comment and thanks for participating in this blog. You are correct in that the Bad Boss blog is inactive. I left it that posted needed to be moderated before being posted. That has resulted in virtually no activity because I am unable to devote the necessary time to moderate posts to it.<br /><br />For all intents and purposes the blog is finished. As a result, I have decided to delete it rather than leave it dormant. Thanks for reminding me it even existed.<br /><br />LarryLarry Hubichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17140136865665292501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-62715163772851570472011-11-10T06:50:24.919-06:002011-11-10T06:50:24.919-06:00Allow me to correct one thing from my previous com...Allow me to correct one thing from my previous comment. I said that the blog is somewhat (actually quite a bit) inactive. I caught a glimpse of your archives when looking to see if my comment posted properly. It was then I realized that the mostly inactive blog was another one of your blogs - the Bad Boss blog. I apologize for the mistake which sadly makes me look kind of stupid. Unfortunate, since it gives laizze-faire capitalist types like RSP an opportunity to dismiss what I believe is a valid, if scorching criticism of his idiocy, self-serving mean-spiritness and general assholery.CarmenThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12390664688417238867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-84883347590349016592011-11-10T06:40:50.783-06:002011-11-10T06:40:50.783-06:00I realize this post and these comments as well as ...I realize this post and these comments as well as the entire blog itself is somewhat old news. <br /><br />Nevertheless if anyone should chance upon it as I did and hopefully if you, Mr. Hublich, still post to this when someone is brave enough to submit something (perhaps this is rare and why so long has gone without posts or maybe it is a busy schedule considering your job - either way while it's unfortunate it is therefore understandable) I would like to respond to the asshole who calls himself Robert S. Porter. <br /><br />"No shame" "No one forced this girl to work there..." "...its nice to see you are willing to destroy a business". With these three quotes I have almost completely quoted RSP's whole first comment. To think that I quoted such pure idiotic crap as his worst excesses and they are almost all of his post is laughable.<br /><br />1. It is you "RSP" (who is too lame/gutless to even have a proper blogger profile) who has no shame.<br /><br />2. No one forced this girl to work there. Life forces most people to get some sort of job and if, like you suggest, "Workers and employers should be able to negociate any deal they want. Even if that means working for pennies.", then what is to stop every or at least a large number/majority of companies from doing that. Everybody knows the employer is generally the one with the upper hand. People have to make a living. Employers can if nothing else work for themselves. Should everyone work for pennies like in some third-world country. I repeat, what an asshole you are.<br /><br />3. "... its nice to see you are willing to destroy a business". Worrying about an inanimate thing over a person tells me alot about you. The argument that businesses provide jobs, which surely comes next, only applies when the jobs a business provides are worth having and allow the people working them to pay bills and have a reasonably decent life. Any business that can be "destroyed" (ooh, scary!) by all those little inconveniences as paying minimum wage and paying for a minimum number of hours per shift scheduled, etc. deserves to be " 'destroyed' in a blazing hellfire that hath no fury". <br /><br />In conclusion, if I didn't say it enough to fully express my disgust with you as a so called human being, and I don't believe I have, I will say it once again. You, "sir" are a complete and utter asshole!CarmenThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12390664688417238867noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-87543159737694408732007-11-17T00:09:00.000-06:002007-11-17T00:09:00.000-06:00Laws do not imply morality.As a libertarian I do n...Laws do not imply morality.<BR/><BR/>As a libertarian I do not support many things. That said, one must take a pragmatic approach to resistance to laws. I'm not suggesting that one should not pay income tax because that is just going to cause trouble. I have no qualms, however, with people being paid under the table but obviously this is not practical for the vast majority.<BR/><BR/>Since I subscribe to J.S. Mill's harm principle I certainly support laws against assault and the egrigious abuse of taser by the muderous RCMP.<BR/><BR/>I'm not saying that a business is being smart by not paying minimum wage. Certainly that will get you in trouble with the state. Additionally there is a long-standing line of economic reasoning that shows how the minimum wage is harmful to those it pretends to support.<BR/><BR/>But here's the problem I was addressing. Person A owns a business. Person B wants a job. Persons A and B come together and <I>freely</I> negociate an employment contract. As it happens they negociate a payment of $7/hour instead of the state mandated price. Why is it anyone's business what there agreement is?<BR/><BR/>In the same way this young girl agreed voluntarily to that price. No one forced her to work there.<BR/><BR/>Thus, if anyone agrees to work for pennies, let them. As long as the actions are voluntary and not made by someone else (ie parents) then there is no problem.Robert S. Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918639491021220934noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-87498364965360927652007-11-16T01:11:00.000-06:002007-11-16T01:11:00.000-06:00Robert,Thank you for participating in this blog.Pl...Robert,<BR/><BR/>Thank you for participating in this blog.<BR/><BR/>Please help me understand which laws you are prepared to dismiss.<BR/><BR/>Is it minimum wage only? Or are there others? Are we to ignore the income tax act? Perhaps the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms should be ignored?<BR/><BR/>How about speed limits? Laws respecting assault? Police brutality via the use of a Taser?<BR/><BR/>If a business will be destroyed by following the laws (i.e. meeting the minimum requirements prescribed by legislation in a modern democracy) then perhaps the business plan that has been prepared is not sound and sustainable.<BR/><BR/>Surely you can't be serious suggesting that companies should be able to employ children for pennies.Larry Hubichhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17140136865665292501noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-879888271139368021.post-90638505574902503752007-11-15T22:29:00.000-06:002007-11-15T22:29:00.000-06:00You have no shame.I'll leave aside the tax issue a...You have no shame.<BR/><BR/>I'll leave aside the tax issue and focus on the moral issue.<BR/><BR/>No on forced this girl to work there. Workers and employers should be able to negociate <B>any</B> deal they want. Even if that means working for pennies.<BR/><BR/>But it's nice to see you are willing to destroy a business.Robert S. Porterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15918639491021220934noreply@blogger.com