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I think they're both equally culpable; the customer for making pricing a race to the bottom and the service provider for choosing to play said game. The custom
by andrewksl 9y ago
I think they're both equally culpable; the customer for making pricing a race to the bottom and the service provider for choosing to play said game.
The customer could choose to consider the treatment of the workers a priority in selecting service providers, and the service provider could choose to refuse to exploit their workers just to secure deals, but neither of them have any real incentive to do so. It's not illegal to shop primarily by price. It's not illegal to hire PT workers even when FT would be viable.
I do agree, though, that the problem is a lack of regulation; unfettered capitalism really does have a evil end game.
- vadym909 9y agoThis problem happens when a leading company decides to use contractors to lower its cost. All other companies that are competing with it now have to do the same or they operate at a disadvantage. The workers then lose any leverage because they now can only pick between multiple contract jobs.