[reflecting]

As Christians the command is to do unto others as we would have them do unto us... love our neighbors. No exceptions.

The parable you site is a teaching concerning God's unearnable grace and seems unrelatable to an employer's responsibilities to my thinking.

Of course employees do have responsibilities as do parents to take care of the family... but none of this lets the boss of the hook. He has a mandate - a command about his actions.

[Can i say that here?]

First let me say you have my respect for continuing this debate against so many opponents at once.

The parable you site is a teaching concerning God's unearnable grace and seems unrelatable to an employer's responsibilities to my thinking.

My thinking is that Jesus would never use, as an example of God's unearnable grace, a scenario that he himself did not promote. In this case, the concept that the Owner has say over his own financial decisions and has no obligation to treat all employees equally, but does have an obligation to fulfill his agreements to each individually.

As Christians the command is to do unto others as we would have them do unto us... love our neighbors. No exceptions.The Golden Rule. Forcing an employer to provide me a living wage, for a product that does not deserve such, at a cost to him and/or the consumer of the product I produce.

Not every job merits a living wage. I ought not assume that I will be able to provide for my family working a line job creating plastic squirt bottles.