Date: Sun, 31 Oct 2004 12:41:48 -0800 (PST)
From: "DP"-AT-pseud.pseud
Subject: M-INTRO: ::Q::477


::Q:477
Why are the conditions for terminating employment
regulated by law instead of being left to the free
market? Does this mean that the state protects the
workers against the capitalists?

It must be regulated by law because without government
intervention, everything would be chaotic and
extremely unfair in the work force.  The capitalistic
system would be full in effect in that the wage
laborers would be exploited just as in the begining
stages of capitalism in England and Europe.  Money
making would be the driving force with everything
being concentrated into maximization of profits. The
laborers would suffer to the point that the system
would transform into a few rich people and the rest in
complete poverty.  In a free market without
regulation, the laborer is transformed from the owner
of a commodity to the commodity itself.  The state
does attempt to protect the worker against the
capitalist by placing regulations so that the worker
is not completely exploited.  The state attempts to
put in place a system of balancing out the
relationship between the giver of work and the
receiver of work.  Unfortunately, there are still many
problems in the employment and work sector but at
least there are certain laws imposed because if no
regard was given to the issue, chaos would occur based
upon the norms of the times.





		
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