Employees can draw unemployment if they quit for sound ethical reasons
I'm not at all sure if this is a good idea myself, but it did cross my mind. Lots of people who live on shoestring budgets are stuck in jobs that don't exactly jive with their personal conscience. Everyone benefits from ethical factories. Unemployment gives people a chance to pursue other lines of work. Under the current system, if a minimum wage worker is asked to dump oil in a river, he may not feel that he has a choice. ...more »
I'm not at all sure if this is a good idea myself, but it did cross my mind. Lots of people who live on shoestring budgets are stuck in jobs that don't exactly jive with their personal conscience. Everyone benefits from ethical factories. Unemployment gives people a chance to pursue other lines of work. Under the current system, if a minimum wage worker is asked to dump oil in a river, he may not feel that he has a choice. That's kind of a wierd system. If he quits for ethical reasons, he can't draw unemployment, and will likely end up jobless in an economy without jobs. Anyone who is stressed because of conflicting values is probably a fairly good person. I don't know the math, but I'm thinking that these kinds of subtle considerations will probably help the economy in the long run, since a house full of honest people will have more stuff than a house that doesn't give a darn.
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