>A "voluntary" contract can still be bullying and coercive. I don't think so. The word "coerced" is an adequate replacement for the word "voluntary" in that si

>A "voluntary" contract can still be bullying and coercive. I don't think so. The word "coerced" is an adequate replacement for the word "voluntary" in that situation. It can't be both. I think the issue that the GP poster has (and I have as well), is that "exploitative" is so nebulous that anyone can use it to describe almost anything. Any opportunity that an employer leverages is technically exploitation. Are all low paying jobs exploitative? They will always exist, by virtue of pay scales. But the word "exploitation" implies they should not exist. The word "exploitative" would be much more useful in conversation if there was a set of clear qualifications (agreed upon by the majority of people) for a job to be exploitative. My understanding is that these qualifications already exist in labor law though.