Our society is steadily increasing in education, (some would doubt this ;))productivity, and the ability to move from one class to the next. The idea that removing a wage law would suddenly reduce all but the upper echelon the chattel seems simplistic and shows little respect for the adaptability of educated people in large numbers.
Here you are liberal and I the conservative. The nature of man is what it is, education will not make men good nor will it inspire them to do good to others. We are what we are either in century or any other. Think of the well educated Germans daily watching Jews being worked to death down the block.
It sounds as if you feel that only the greedy and the cutthroat are capable of being an employer. Every scenario you have presented supposes that the man offering employment is bad, and the man seeking a job is good
Well then I have done a poor job of explaining myself, they are the same in my view, good and evil mixed.
The presence of good men in the business world produces its own type of market force. Your wage offer will put you in competition with other businesses who seek high quality workers.
I know good men and women in business, who do indeed take seriously their responsibility to others. But it is law/government we need to insure all will do what is morally right. Many business men reward themselves well for their hard work and risk taking, but they also see that their employees have a living wage. There were many men who would not own slaves, the great John Adams comes first to mind, but it took, well you know all that it took, to keep all men from owning slaves.
Let this be the end of it as we have been round the ship in full.
Well said. I pray you are able to live your life in a manner worthy of Christ and I will attempt to do the same.
smile. Yeah, I don't care who you are, that was funny right there.