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NoStumpoElTrumpo 14 points ago +14 / -0

we don't need more laws regulating business, we need fewer. Hire and fire for any reason

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MapleBaconWaffles 8 points ago +8 / -0

Honestly sounds like it could cause more harm than good.

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Meddlesom 2 points ago +2 / -0

Oh fuck no. You have not thought this idea through at all.

Passing a law like this would just give the left another powerful weapon to use against us. Look at how we had to amend the constitution to ensure freed slaves became citizens with rights because the democrats were not granting freed blacks citizenship to keep them from voting... so we put birthright citizenship in there. Look at how the democrats have corrupted that into a weapon against the country... now they grant citizenship to illegal aliens just because they crossed the border five minutes before squeezing out some spawn, now entire generations of illegal aliens are living here because of anchor babies, are being counted in the census, and are helping shift the balance of power from red to blue through reallocation of electoral vote and seats in the house.

Now take cases like Colin Kaepernick or Sean Avery, for example. Kaepernick was cancer for the 49ers as a business. When he started his craptivism, game attendance dropped, tv viewership dropped, they started losing money, so they fired him. Sean Avery made perfectly legal comments about how another hockey player was now dating his sloppy seconds (Eliza Cuthbert)... the Dallas Stars fired him over it because he was hurting their image. Those are big businesses that can survive this kind of shit.

Now imagine passing a law that says it's illegal to fire people like that, and then imagine what it would be like to be a small business owner that ends up with a cancerous employee that is untouchable as they drive your business into the ground.

Wanna know why government jobs are filled with such useless people and everything works so poorly? It's because it's almost impossible to fire someone from the civil service because they'll turn right around and sue for grievences over any number of imaginary reasons... pick an "ism" and they'll cry foul, blame that, and try to take down the person firing them.

No, business owners should be able to fire someone for any reason, no matter how petty it is. If someone converts to Islam, I wanna be able to fire them. If a woman doesn't wax her lip and I'm locked in on that high school moustache she's got going, I wanna be able to fire her. If I found out that an employee is an antifa soyboy, that should be more than enough justification to fire them.

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Meddlesom 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just remember, every right that you give up is one that you will never get back, and it will be weaponized and turned against you "for your own good". Every time we cede control of an aspect of our lives to government, we lose a little more freedom and government becomes a little more tyranical.

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pseudosapient 1 point ago +1 / -0

If humans were perfect and never disagreed with each other over the meaning of agreements? Absolutely.

But that's not the case. And laws exist precisely to provide a precise fallback when things go wrong.

For instance, this offers yet another way for someone with money to shut down a smaller competitor. Namely hire good lawyers on behalf of some disgruntled employee.

Or even without that blatancy, you know that you can afford better lawyers than a small company. If you're a large company and someone sues you for this, you shrug and hand it off to your legal department. If you're a company with three people and someone sues you for this, the cost of trying to fight it itself will likely take you under. You're caught between a rock and a hard place.

It's the same as forced maternal leave paid by companies. Large corporations love it, because they can just budget oh, x% of people off at a time. Whereas if you've got three people and someone goes on maternity leave, you're stuck between a rock and a hard place. Especially for the more involved jobs... if you're in a niche that takes six months to learn, and now suddenly you're paying three salarys for two people for six months of maternity leave, and it's illegal to start training a permanent replacement while the person is away, what are you going to do? Go under, probably.

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Deaduponaviral 1 point ago +1 / -0

Just stay tf off social media and if you are show nothing that gives your identity away. Just turn it off or have enough restraint to hold your tongue. Either stay 100% anon or post nothing “controversial”. It’s just the way it is now, even though I agree you should be able to say whatever you want without threatening someone else’s lives.

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chipitin -1 points ago +1 / -2

Robert Barnes want to make it so that you can only be fired for just cause. I agree with that

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HighVoltage 2 points ago +2 / -0

The trouble then is that people would tie the courts up for 100 years to debate what a just cause means.