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Working From Home - Impacts of Coronavirus
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: maginnovision on July 01, 2020, 05:21:32 am ---We also have the right to trade our labor as we please[...]
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I don't think that has been completely true for a very long time. We all get put in little boxes and a lot of effort goes into making sure we stay there.
maginnovision:
--- Quote from: SilverSolder on July 01, 2020, 02:16:44 pm ---
--- Quote from: maginnovision on July 01, 2020, 05:21:32 am ---We also have the right to trade our labor as we please[...]
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I don't think that has been completely true for a very long time. We all get put in little boxes and a lot of effort goes into making sure we stay there.
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We also have national minimum wage and that inhibits it, more micro management of it in some states/areas limits the ability further as well. Some trades are illegal(hired killer, prostitute in many areas, drug dealer etc...) but they're not strictly illegal it's just that in the course you're going to break the law. The idea is still there that the government can't/shouldn't tell me how I choose to trade my labor which is definitely being violated in its entirety for many people.
I'm high risk so I'm staying home anyway but I don't see how so many of these decisions change anything. The sheriffs have already said they won't enforce the beach bans and for the sake of liberty I hope the people who have already purchased the fireworks choose to have their show anyway. Just for the sake of liberty, the fireworks themselves are incidental.
tom66:
Somehow I don't think the framers of the constitution considered a global pandemic in a world with affordable mass transit in cars/buses/trains, and aircraft to spread any infection, when they were writing it.
There's an obsession with the constitution in the USA. No doubt it is important, having the right to free speech so emphasised in law is clearly useful and prevents many authoritarian behaviours from the government (e.g. banning flag burning.) But in the case of a pandemic, norms don't apply any more.
coppice:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 01, 2020, 04:53:39 pm ---Somehow I don't think the framers of the constitution considered a global pandemic in a world with affordable mass transit in cars/buses/trains, and aircraft to spread any infection, when they were writing it.
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Since it was pandemics which allowed Europeans to settle North America so easily, I imagine the possibility of further pandemics rapidly spread by efficient travel technologies wouldn't have been too far from their minds.
SilverSolder:
--- Quote from: tom66 on July 01, 2020, 04:53:39 pm ---Somehow I don't think the framers of the constitution considered a global pandemic in a world with affordable mass transit in cars/buses/trains, and aircraft to spread any infection, when they were writing it.
There's an obsession with the constitution in the USA. No doubt it is important, having the right to free speech so emphasised in law is clearly useful and prevents many authoritarian behaviours from the government (e.g. banning flag burning.) But in the case of a pandemic, norms don't apply any more.
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I admire the American constitution, but I don't understand why such an old document is not being kept up-to-date as time goes and society changes - surely America has moved on in 200 odd years...
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