Here in the UK today, one of the candidates to be the next PM has said that British people ‘lack graft’ and need to work harder. Now listening to a radio call-in and it’s attracting the worst kind of free market cronies saying nobody wants to work, people slack off all day, they all want to work from home, it’s greedy/selfish workers that are getting in the way of truly realising the potential of capitalism.
Newsflash: free market principles apply to the labour market too! People are selling their labour to you. If what you’re offering isn’t attractive enough, they won’t choose you. They’ll choose a better offer from your competitor. And what’s more, that’s the exact principle that you think business should work on!
Or isn’t that the kind of free market you like?