Talk:Neocolonialism/@comment-681745-20130107084103

I don't think requiring businesses to employ a minimum of labour per unit of capital would work. Different ratios of labour to capital are efficient in different industries. There can be different production processes that use different ratios of labour to capital in the same industry and the best way of finding out which is most efficient is the market mechanism. I fear regulating the ratio of labour to capital would create unnecessary bureaucracy and inefficiency.

One serious problem I fear is that in some industries, like the aricraft industry safety equipment is expensive and capital intensive. If businesses are required to hire more workers they don't need just because safety equipment increases their capital there is a serious temptation to compromise on safety.