I will likely read this book. But what do you think about the argument in this description?
“A mugger to a stranger, "Give me your wallet or I will beat you to pulp!" It is a crime.
An employer says to a worker: "Adding lung-saving ventilation
will reduce my profit. Give me back some of your wages and I will let you keep your lungs!" This is not a crime.
Our assumptions about the world condition us to see these
situations as legally different from one another. But what if we,
the critics of corporate capitalism, instead insisted on taking
the spirit of law, rather than its letter, seriously? It would then be possible to describe many of the daily practices of capitalists and their corporations as criminal in nature, even if not always criminal by the letter and formality of law.
In Capitalism: A Crime Story, Harry Glasbeek makes the case
that if the rules and doctrines of liberal law were applied as they should be according to law's own pronouncements and methodology, corporate capitalism would be much harder to defend.
That is not an equal analogy as theoretically the worker could get another job, but I get your point and agree that if we could put things in a legal frame, we might be able to make some gains.
The spirit of the law is subjective and only becomes realistically applicable once an event brings the ethical application into mainstream thinking.
This is highlighted in - Kohlberg's stages of Moral Development
See Heinz’s dilemma.
That's something good to thinnk about. Thanks.