Business - Necessary but not Sufficient

I may have given the impression, in my previous post, that I am anti-business. 
Perhaps even a Socialist. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Business works fine, within its proper terms of reference.

Legitimate business activity benefits humanity by providing goods and services
which enhance our lives. The problem is that business is getting too big for its boots.

Business presumes to be able to fulfill all human needs but this is simply not the case.
Business and Consumerism can never fulfill all the desires of the human heart, nor should it attempt to do so.

Business is a necessary but not sufficient condition for human progress.
It only benefits human society if it operates within a framework of
democracy, law, social justice and a wider culture.

Business can exist without such a framework but it seldom, if ever, benefits
human beings should that be the case.

People have a right to have a life outside their employment. It is wrong of business to try and define self-development, leisure, self-worth and meaning for an employee.
As if an employee were not capable of growing independently of their paid employment.
When you sell some of your time for a wage, you do not (or certainly should not) join some sort of cult.

Your own time is your own time. 
The only part of your time that an employer is entitled to  have a say within, is the time that has been paid for by that employer. 
Even within that time, the employer does not own you.

Often business seems to forget that. There is also a tendency to treat Contracts of employment as a unilateral affair. Contracts are bilateral and one of the vital tasks of the law is to make sure that this principle is upheld. 

It is not a good thing for an employer to unilaterally alter the terms of employment, even if it appears to confer a benefit on the employee. Equally, it is not good for an employee to object to the contract he/she entered into, just because someone else may have negotiated a better one.

Contracts imply an agreement between freely cooperating individuals. They cannot be based upon coercion, subterfuge or paternalism.