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>While I agree with many of your points, and certainly there are many people who get exploited. But overall, if employers and employees are agreeing to mutual e
by tedks 11y ago
>While I agree with many of your points, and certainly there are many people who get exploited. But overall, if employers and employees are agreeing to mutual employment terms without coercion, then by definition it is not exploitation.
Right. Employers and employees agree to mutual employment terms without coercion. That is the world we live in. Also, consumers make rational choices to maximize their happiness, advertising exists to inform people of products and give them more information to rationally make decisions, and competition between rival corporations drives down prices and makes everything better for consumers. Employees can negotiate better wages because if they don't like it at one job, they can leave and find another employer who will face no repercussions for hiring them.
When things like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn_suicides or this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Dhaka_fire happen, it's not exploitation. It's just employers and employees mutually agreeing to the terms of employment.
- cpursley 11y agoI can play this game as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_rate https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_suicide_r... tl;dr is USA has higher per capita suicide rate then China.
- DonaldFisk 11y agoThis doesn't mean that people in China are happier, though: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268111001120 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0167268111... Summary: the happiest places tend to have the highest suicide rates.
- tedks 11y agoWhat about the per capita rate of factory workers left to burn to death in a locked building? What is that for the US?
- tedks 11y agoIt's too late to edit, but I should add that really, what we want here is the per capita rate of factory workers locked inside factories so they can't leave. You know, because of the contract they entered into as rational economic agents without any coercion. Still waiting on what the per capita rate of that for the US is.
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