Comments on: Deus Absconditus in Employment http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082 two kingdoms, hundreds of thousands of miles Mon, 08 Sep 2008 16:00:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Necessary Roughness » Blog Archive » Did Circuit City Cut the Wrong People? http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11822 Necessary Roughness » Blog Archive » Did Circuit City Cut the Wrong People? Wed, 02 May 2007 04:25:38 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11822 [...] It will be interesting to see if Circuit City tries to hire some of those experienced people back. They won’t come cheaply. One gets a real pay raise one of three ways: promotion, transfer, or quitting and coming back. I wonder if Chuck Colson thinks their requests for raises will be greedy and anti-Christian. [...] [...] It will be interesting to see if Circuit City tries to hire some of those experienced people back. They won’t come cheaply. One gets a real pay raise one of three ways: promotion, transfer, or quitting and coming back. I wonder if Chuck Colson thinks their requests for raises will be greedy and anti-Christian. [...]

]]> By: Dan http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11492 Dan Fri, 06 Apr 2007 02:02:19 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11492 Rick, thanks for stopping by. I do think regulation is a barrier between knowledge and action, so what you say makes sense. I also do not equate the hidden God with the hand of Adam Smith. :) Rick, thanks for stopping by.

I do think regulation is a barrier between knowledge and action, so what you say makes sense. I also do not equate the hidden God with the hand of Adam Smith. :)

]]> By: Rick Ritchie http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11490 Rick Ritchie Thu, 05 Apr 2007 22:37:12 +0000 http://necessaryroughness.org/archives/1082#comment-11490 As a libertarian, I place a lot of weight in the free market side of your arguments. But I've also grown used to asking how government intrusion into markets creates situations that people abhor. I think some of the laws of incorporation allow companies to take risks that they could not otherwise take, and enourages them to grow much larger than they would otherwise grow. This makes for more massive employment cuts than we would see in a freer market. Regulation also makes it easier for larger companies to grow than smaller ones, as they have legal departments to deal with compliance. As to the Romans passage, I believe it, but I think it doesn't necessarily mean for the good in this life. Nor do I want to identify the hidden God with the invisible hand of capitalism, especially what that hand does in a mixed economy. As a libertarian, I place a lot of weight in the free market side of your arguments. But I’ve also grown used to asking how government intrusion into markets creates situations that people abhor. I think some of the laws of incorporation allow companies to take risks that they could not otherwise take, and enourages them to grow much larger than they would otherwise grow. This makes for more massive employment cuts than we would see in a freer market. Regulation also makes it easier for larger companies to grow than smaller ones, as they have legal departments to deal with compliance.

As to the Romans passage, I believe it, but I think it doesn’t necessarily mean for the good in this life. Nor do I want to identify the hidden God with the invisible hand of capitalism, especially what that hand does in a mixed economy.

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