Not just that, but (slave labor aside) a company and its employees are voluntarily associated. Voluntary associations are the kind of thing we (as a society) are usually fine with judging people based on (as opposed to features that are relatively immutable like race).
In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans. Increasingly we’re seeing police being added to lists of “protected classes” too. This attitude is (unfortunately) changing in society.
> In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans.
We also had a draft for a very long time, and I'm sure that when these laws were put into place, there were a large portion of draftees who were at risk for being discriminated against for something they were forced by the government to do.
> In many US localities it’s illegal to discriminate against military veterans
Military veterans are federally protected against negative discrimination, and in most public employment at all levels, and many private employment contexts, are also beneficiaries of explicit positive discrimination.
The slave labor reference was an attempt to duck the troll who (absent it) would say "Slavery isn't a voluntary association with a company and X, Y, and Z are pretty much slavery so there".
If you had bothered to engage with my actual point (that our social norms make it more acceptable to judge people on their voluntary associations and actions than on their involuntary features) you might be less frustrated.
> "I recommend you get back to Object Oriented Immutable code before your economic provider involuntary associates your comments on this website via the intersectionality and "color" privilege of bias of your comments and declares you are wasting the time of economic organization!"
> In plain English, get back to writing code, brogrammer.
For some reason I don't think he should be the one worrying about being associated with his online comments.
