I was thinking about the Basecamp stuff today

It made me wonder if businesses will ever reach out to gov& #39;t *themselves* and say "please pass a law banning politics from the workplace, we& #39;re too scared of our employees to do it ourselves"

and I was thinking about how people would be like "even if businesses wanted that, it would be a bad law b/c it& #39;s a violation of the 1st amendment, those businesses should grow up and just do it themselves & enforce it on their own"

And then (oh boy here we go) I realized this is *exactly* the argument that people have made in favor of state-wide mask mandates

They say that businesses really *do* want these mandates but are unwilling to enforce them on their own so they plead to the state gov& #39;t to do it

But if you turn that around, you realize that (just like an anti-politics-in-the-workplace law) a state mandate also forces businesses who *don& #39;t* want a mask mandate to have one.

It really makes the pro-mandate argument look ridiculous when you cast it in any other context