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It's not a false dichotomy because it is something that exists today. The workers can either work for next to nothing in terrible conditions, or they can starve
by Zikes 10y ago
It's not a false dichotomy because it is something that exists today. The workers can either work for next to nothing in terrible conditions, or they can starve.
Better situations exist and are possible, but they do not prove the nonexistence of the former.
- lmmlzxx 10y agoI think GP had it right that this is a false dichotomy, that being "a type of informal fallacy that involves a situation in which only limited alternatives are considered, when in fact there is at least one additional option". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma False dichotomy doesn't mean that one of the options doesn't exist, it means there is an additional option not being considered -- that is, industry and government coordinating to create safe working environments and pay livable wages.