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thenewgreen  ·  4496 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Who’s the Boss? The Worst Post-Citizen’s United Ruling Yet

    In the view of the three Republicans on the FEC, then, Citizen’s United means not only that a corporation or union can deploy money in an independent effort to affect the outcome of an election (including money that rightfully belongs to its shareholders), but that it can deploy any other resources it controls—including its employees’ time, both on and off the clock.
How can this be?




mk  ·  4496 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It makes sense when you think of employment as a kind of ownership.

geneusutwerk  ·  4493 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Which is frankly terrifying.

It also amusingly plays into the narrative from the far left that wage labor is tantamount to slavery.

mk  ·  4493 days ago  ·  link  ·  

The problem with the far left and far right is that they don't seem to view moderation as an ideal worthy of consideration.

b_b  ·  4495 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That one owns oneself should be the most inalienable right for every person everywhere. All other rights derive from that fact that one is one's own master, and has dominion over himself and his possessions. Any attempt to ascribe ownership of a person to another person is a fundamental violation of the most fundamental human right.