[ExI] Social right to have a living

Rafal Smigrodzki rafal.smigrodzki at gmail.com
Sun Jun 26 16:50:31 UTC 2011


On Mon, May 30, 2011 at 6:31 PM, Damien Sullivan
<phoenix at ugcs.caltech.edu> wrote:

  Hiring landless workers at market prices, workers who are
> landless because they were kicked off their land by others, seems like a
> problematic grey area.  You may not be doing anything directly wrong
> yourself, but the whole system is messed-up and you're profiting from
> injustices.  Like, hrm, buying stolen goods.  You didn't steal them,
> but...

### Mr Gates of Microsoft became filthy rich by hiring predominantly
landless workers (or effectively so, the backyard doesn't count).

Bastard, isn't he?

Rafal




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