Employment discrimination on the matters of race and sex are not allowed, Federally, IIRC. Correct me if I'm wrong?
States have their own laws, which may extend the above.
Many states have sexual harrassment laws, which make some of your above acts criminal. Others have anti-prostitution laws (or at least solicitation).
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In my opinion the main error made in judging this case however is to say the company belongs to the person who is legally defined as the owner of the corporation as an article of private property. The company has been created by those who worked for it. and therefore the fruits of their labour morally belong to these people. It would be moral and just for the owner to be dispossessed immediately and the company to become the communal property of its employee's as a whole.
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Actually, the concept that those who put up the capital (ie, deferred earned consumption) to fund a corperation own it is sort of the core of capitalism, strange.
Remember that is what capital is -- 'earned consumption' which you choose to not consume, and instead allocate to projects that could earn you more consumption rights (aka, money) later on. Because some people value potential consumption, others can consume more immediately. And the 'invested' deferred consumption typically generates wealth.
If labour was the only measure of worth, deferred consumption would be valueless. Which means generating more wealth than you want to use immediately goes unrewarded.
But both my and your points are tangental.
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Sacking of smokers
Sacking of overweight
Sacking of all people who's parents were not born in America
Sacking of all women who will not wear revealing uniforms?
Sacking of all who are not members of the Baptist church?
If one is allowable, then all of the other cases are merely matters of degree.
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I suspect Smokers, Overweight and Baptists restrictions above are legal under US Federal law. Not born in America is also probably legal, but it might run into the anti-racial discrimination law.