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The word is "exploitive". Desperate people will do things because they have to. If I pay a homeless person $20 to humiliate himself, is that a fair transaction,
by lifeformed 7y ago
The word is "exploitive". Desperate people will do things because they have to. If I pay a homeless person $20 to humiliate himself, is that a fair transaction, or an exploitation of the asymmetry between our conditions?
- ekianjo 7y agoThere is no obligation for anyone to do anything. Do you assume that there is no free will and we are all like robots driven by short term profits?
- pizza234 7y agoThat doesn't answer the parent's question. If you call 20$, for a person who owes nothing and is probably starving, a "short term profit", you've very likely never experienced how is it to live in poor conditions.
- Spooky23 7y agoTo the chubby engineer type in 2019, yes. Make the drunk dwarf dance, it’s a free market. When recession strikes and the gravy train ends, the same folks will be wearing Che Guevara T-shirts crying about unfairness.