Having someone in here arguing for the ethics of this sort of thing is not better. Just because it looks like we all follow an official style guide in here doesn't make what is said here automatically better. It has to do that on its own merits, and as long as "arguing persuasively for evil, as a thought exercise" is considered a good thing here that can't happen imo.

Civility and debate themselves are not virtues! What purpose do they serve for us? What are we doing here? If you want to make an argument that we're superior to reddit you need to make it on more than the aesthetics of the prose bc that isn't shit in the end.

Civility is a virtue on a site like this, it means the conversation has to rise a step above repetitive 4 letter vocabulary slinging. Sure, it doesn't get you much above the swamp but it at least points in the right direction.

>as long as "arguing persuasively for evil, as a thought exercise" is considered a good thing

There in lies the problem, it isn't evil. There were some pro worker points about making life easier for your employees, and there were some anti-worker points about trying to pay your employees less. On the whole I am not sure what the big deal is, companies have never paid more than they have to, suggesting that the current environment might allow for a reduction in wages is not "evil".