Ciro wrote: > Perhaps I'm specializing in making 'off topic' comments, Sorry, but I can't let this go...
> just > imagine if a company (not WotC, ANY company) could use workers of any > type under the guise of 'volunteers' - an excellent supply of low wage > and no guarantees people that are easy to fire and can't complain > because they have no rights and no better alternatives. Unless they are being coerced to work, they always have an alternative...they can quit and look for another job. They can relocate. I have no guarantee in my job currently. I don't have any "rights" to my job. My company can fire me at will. However, I can quit anytime I want to as well. I would not have it any other way. > just imagine about the working > conditions in the > sweatshops of the US (yes, you have a lot of them, not just Mexico or > Latin America) or southern Italy (where a month's wage is around 500 > dollars, you work for ten-twelve hours a day and all the workers are, > probably, 'volunteers' too). I believe that the people working in those "sweatshops" are working there because that is their best option. Given the choice between working 10 to 12 hours per day and feeding my family or watching my family starve, I will take the work. These people are not forced to work in these conditions. They work there because they want to! Would they prefer to work in a better job, with less hours, and less pay? Of course. Do they have the skill set to support such a transition. Obviously, the answer is no, they do not or they would move on. Given that they can't find a better job, would they prefer to quit and not work? Once again the answer is no, or they wouldn't be working. The market is paying these people what their labor is worth. It is only in cases where the workers are being coerced, that there should be intervention. J. Wayne Chastain (Libertarian and laissez-faire capitalist) P.S. Ciro, feel free to email me directly if you want to take this debate off the list. We probably won't end up with our positions changed, but at least they will have been challenged, and one or both of us might learn something in the process. _______________________________________________ Ogf-l mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.opengamingfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/ogf-l
