Right means The ability to do or not do something that does not invade Relationships with others, and work relationships, are especially important because crucial connections are born from them.
It is common to hear the conversation Concerning workers’ rights that are limited to workers, workers and employees who have a subordinate relationship or its equivalent. Well, this constitutes the nonsense of Capital I, it is a repetition but it is convenient to reiterate that workers are all those who work, and to limit them to some, for example, excluding traders and businessmen who practically adhere to the Marxist theory of exploitation where some work and others suck their blood. It goes without saying, in this context, that it must be emphasized that the businessman or merchant is not a person who works linked to the ruling authority on the basis of privileges and captive markets. They are feudal barons or white-collar conquerors. The true business man is he who, in order to improve his assets, must satisfy the wants and demands of his fellow men; Thus, the right person wins, and the wrong person loses.
The second nonsense: that he spoke Social rights mean violating the rights of others. As Friedrich Hayek, the Nobel Prize winner in economics, explained, “The use of the adjective social in front of any noun turns the concept into its opposite,” and this happens with what is called social constitutionalism, which means abandoning the constitutional principles of restricting power, social justice, which translates into taking the fruits of their labor from some to forcibly hand them over to those who do not own the product, social equality, which means a horizontal guillotine condemning poverty, and so on.
Unfortunately, there are many colleges In law, they produce not defenders of the legal framework aimed at unlimited respect for private spaces, but memorizers of the numbering of laws, paragraphs and subsections, who are ignorant of the external landmarks and reference points of the positive rule. This means that they advocate the most crude positivism, leaving aside the natural characteristics and qualities of man, with the ridiculous claim that there can be no unjust laws, a deviation that was in fact abandoned in the Nuremberg trials that dismantled the legislative framework for Nazi criminals. The same applies to the absurd concept of “abuse of law,” which is a crude slogan, as the same act cannot be both in accordance with and in violation of the law. It is also worth noting that equality before the law is inseparable from justice, as “each person gives what he has,” and what he has refers to private property, as equality before the law is not about going to concentration camps.
In large part, it has been repeated ad nauseam in our environment From our recent history it has been necessary to intervene in the relations expressed in the labor market and impose “social victories” such as setting minimum wages, one of the ideas taken from Mussolini’s Labor Pact along with compulsory unionization.
Salaries and income in real terms are an inevitable consequence of rates Capitalization, i.e. tools, equipment, facilities, machinery and relevant knowledge that provide logistical support for the business to increase its performance. This is the difference between salaries in Uganda and Germany, and it has nothing to do with climate, ethnicity or natural resources: they are exclusively the result of institutional frameworks that guarantee rights. Japan is a rubble, with only twenty percent of it suitable for habitation, while the African continent possesses a good portion of the planet’s natural resources, and yet the majority of its countries suffer from the most terrifying misery.
Therefore, income is not the result of volunteer work. Nor from the decrees late at night; As we mentioned, it is a result of the volume of investments. If market wages are five hundred and a minimum wage is set at seven hundred, unemployment will occur among those who need work most. The general manager, financial director, administration director, and others will not be affected unless the minimum wage exceeds their fees, in which case they will become unemployed. This is without prejudice to the enormous negotiations in labor trials, as well as the strange legislation related to dismissal from work.
Sometimes it is said That civilized labor reforms that return to sensible channels aim to make those who today work under black conditions because they were fired by whites under expropriation laws should be regulated to “contribute to the pension system,” as if they were part of a herd or cannon fodder should be used to increase contributions to a broken pay-as-you-go system, rather than targeting substantive reforms in order to reverse a harmful mechanism that does not need actuaries or financial experts to see through this nonsense.
Reforming labor is liberating everyone who works so that they can do so Focus on caring for the rights of every person and not submitting to political and union bureaucracy. In fact, so-called withholding agents are patent immorality. There should be no difference between gross and net salary, and no one should withhold the fruit of their labor with the unhealthy idea that if an employee could dispose of his entire salary, he would direct it in a way different from that intended by authoritarian trade unionists and misguided politicians.
It was also insisted on the need to raise objections to technological progress Well, by that standard, they would also be conspiring against jobs. This is repeated without taking into account that technological progress actually frees up labor to meet other needs. This happened with the ice rod man when the refrigerator was introduced, with the locomotive stoker when diesel engines appeared, more recently with postmen when mail appeared or bag drivers when wheels were put on suitcases, etc. Needs are unlimited and resources are limited, and when improvements in productivity are made, work is freed up to meet other requirements. Entrepreneurs who are always eager to find new arbitrage are the first to be interested in training for new destinations.
For their part, trade unions as free and voluntary associations are essential For the purposes that volunteer members see fit, what is unacceptable are bullies who impose unions, unions and contributions that force behavior different from what people prefer. The right not to work is the equivalent of the right to do so, but what cannot be justified is the obligation to join strikes under the threat of violence of various kinds.
In other words, our country has been subjugated for decades To legislation Authoritarian policies that attacked the most basic rights of all working people, which naturally led to poverty on a massive scale. Now we are faced with Labor proposals that seek to abandon fascist legislation that invariably impoverishes everyone, but especially the most needy.
The author holds two doctoral degrees, is a professor, and a member of three National Academies