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The Mitie boss who says board quotas are not the answer
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The government saying there should be X percent of this or that population group on company boards.
The distinction between state and civil society is breaking down – the whole of “anti discrimination law” treats business enterprises as part of the state.
Oddly enough this is not a new idea – in the late Roman Empire “anti discrimination” doctrine also became part of law.
Inns were told they could not turn people away.
The sellers of goods were told what they had to sell to – and what they had to sell (laws defined what sort of goods were sold) and at what price
The Emperor Diocletian set up state owned factories – but, by then, changes to the law had already undermined private enterprise in the sense of civil society.
If the state decides who you employ and who you trade with, then freedom is dying.
Freedom of association must include the freedom not to associate.
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