[extropy-chat] Jack's right, he's not ready for reality

[Rik van Riel]

On Sun, 20 Nov 2005, Technotranscendence wrote:
> On Sunday, November 20, 2005 5:55 PM Rik van Riel riel at surriel.com

> > My advice doesn't go any further than:
> > - pay minimum wage
> > - comply with labor laws
> >
> > I'd like to know what you think is bad about that.
> 
> Easy: both put people out of work by otherwise preventing people from
> coming to mutual agreements on, respectively, wages and working
> conditions.  (In other words, it reduces personal freedom, specifically
> freedom to trade and freedom to contract.)

If you seriously think people should work for less than
their own cost of living, you might want to put your money
where your mouth is and live on a salary below minimum
wage yourself.

If you think that is not acceptable, you should not be
wishing it on others.

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Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan