>Fact is, they are employed there of their own volition so clearly there must be some advantage over potential alternatives. There was a good article on HN a f

>Fact is, they are employed there of their own volition so clearly there must be some advantage over potential alternatives. There was a good article on HN a few weeks back that interviewed people in Amazon’s warehouses as the union debate heated up in the US. What struck me was that many were there because they didn’t have other options. Some were previously working very middle class jobs which no longer existed because they were outsourced and now were making much, much less because there were no good alternatives. People choosing the lesser of two evils doesn’t make for a compelling argument for the virtues of them acting out of their own volition. And that globalization that brought about that point may very well have lifted others elsewhere out of poverty but it seems to conflict with the article’s claim about non-zero sum wealth generation.