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How is that exploitation?

• uoaei 7y ago
  You require capital to survive. If you have no capital, the ways to get some are welfare, charity, inheritance, or employment. Barring the first three, your only option to get capital is to seek and get employment. The operative word being "only" here, this relationship is inherently nonconsensual, and a power dynamic emerges between employer and employee where the employee is cornered to bending to the employer's demands. If another employer offers better terms, you may "choose" to switch employers, but this is a false choice as that power dynamic never goes away. How this relationship plays out in practice comes down to the employer's behaviors and how much they want to exploit that power dynamic, and by transitivity the employee.