Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to mlyoung57. Whether at-will employment is a literal nullification of the concept of a contract, or a subversion of the norms of contractual reliance through asymmetrical bargaining power, is analytic logic chopping. Either way, one faces the…

In reply to mlyoung57. I meant to say earlier (what I’ve said many times over the years) that you should be mining your real estate experience for material on business ethics and other related topics. You have far, far more experience in busines…

Thanks to everyone who commented; this conversation was extremely helpful to me, in part for exposing my ignorance, and in part for stimulating me to rectify it. In the fit of enthusiasm prompted by this discussion, I’ve gone out and bought Dana …

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’d say you are talking about a specific form of abuse of the employment-at-will contract: employees are required, on pain of being fired, to sign apparent contracts pertaining how their job is to be done (and sometimes…

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In reply to Roderick T. Long. I could use a reference, but I guess I don’t really buy that. What I mean is: without disputing your causal explanation for why employment at will is particularly toxic in our current state, I’d say that it&#82…

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, recall that my preferred policy move is not regulatory legislation, but unionization. One of the best inducements to getting employers to pay “above market rates” is to make what’s “above market rate…

In reply to mlyoung57. Well, instrumental reasons require an appraisal at least of the merit or worth of an individual in instrumental, institutional terms, so there is some connection there to justice. Some sense of justice is required to give a corre…

In reply to djr. That makes loads of sense. Actually, I should explain that I didn’t set out to try to understand my predicament by reflecting on Aristotle’s Poetics. In a way, things happened the other way around. I’ve been re-engagi…