So basically if a corporation takes advantage of a situation by having someone over a barrel, it's fair to exploit them and there should never be any chance of redress?


First, the corporation the Kirby's are suing had nothing to do with Marvel Comics in the sixties.  And, yes, it is fair to exploit people who don't know their own worth.  That's the American way. Well, its also the Chinese way, the Vietnamese way, etc.  You minimize costs of labor in order to keep your prices competitive or, ideally, drive your competition out orf business so you have a monopoly and can start REALLY gouging the public.  If Kirby is gullible enough to think Martin Goodman is going to honor something NOT on paper, then he shouldn't have been surprised at the result.  Maybe Kirby, when a publisher himself, should have supported an artists' union? 


How anyone can defend such a notion is beyond me.


Okay.  Limited capacity to understand noted. 


That's like defending slavery because it was legal at the time.

Nope.  And if I sought to defend slavery it would be on religious grounds since the three major religions I know of agree to the concept in their "holy books."  If god's for it, how can man oppose it?  (Read the preceding with as much cynicism as you can muster.)

Slavery was legal (and considered moral, see "gods" words for that) for most of mankind's history.  Even Sparticus did not oppose slavery, no matter what Hollywood might have said in the movie. The alternatives when you captured people in war was to either enslave them, or kill them.  The former is more civilized per 1000 BC thinking.  Usually they compromised and did both. Killed the men and enslaved the women...

The slaves imported into the Western Hemisphere (after the American Indians proved to be too sickly to serve as labor) were ALREADY slaves sold by their (black) masters to Arabs, Europeans, and Indians in exchange for goods. There was no serious questioning of slavery until late in the 18th Century.

Slavery still exists in parts of Africa, and if you consider the way women are treated in most societies, in nearly all the other continents as well.

We cannot impose our morality on those who came before us and thus condemn them.  
We can merely attempt to act in a more enlightened way now.

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