Call me old fashioned, but I think debates over the next few months should be about whether or not just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage. Some debates will inevitably focus on whether particular countries should have particular kinds of living wage laws. I don't think that such debates are, in themselves, better or worse than debates that focus on abstract questions about justice and the living wage. More generally, I don't really care for clash-of-civilizations debates between policymakers and philosophers: I think it's a mistake to privilege, without much empirical evidence, either abstract philosophical debate or concrete public policy debate as more fair or educational than the other. Some approaches are more germane to certain resolutions than they are to others. Most resolutions call for elements of both, but the balance depends on precise aspects of wording.
Jake Nebel on Specifying "Just Governments"
Jake Nebel on Specifying "Just Governments"
Jake Nebel on Specifying "Just Governments"
Call me old fashioned, but I think debates over the next few months should be about whether or not just governments ought to require that employers pay a living wage. Some debates will inevitably focus on whether particular countries should have particular kinds of living wage laws. I don't think that such debates are, in themselves, better or worse than debates that focus on abstract questions about justice and the living wage. More generally, I don't really care for clash-of-civilizations debates between policymakers and philosophers: I think it's a mistake to privilege, without much empirical evidence, either abstract philosophical debate or concrete public policy debate as more fair or educational than the other. Some approaches are more germane to certain resolutions than they are to others. Most resolutions call for elements of both, but the balance depends on precise aspects of wording.