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I don't think it matters because you continuously hyper focus on the situation of the individual and repeat your arguments as if you've said something effective
by kevviiinn 4y ago
I don't think it matters because you continuously hyper focus on the situation of the individual and repeat your arguments as if you've said something effective
Capitalism is a system in which workers are exploited and have the value they produce extracted by capital owners who provide no value. We have a system which exploits those who have no choice but to work for low pay high risk jobs. Capital owners already have captured the regulatory mechanisms which are supposedly intended to protect workers and consumers.
If you allow someone to sell themselves for experimentation when they're dying, the people who already have incredible influence over workers and their conditions along with regulatory mechanisms intended to keep people safe you now provide an incredibly perverse incentive for capital owners who want experimental subjects to ensure that conditions for workers and consumers are unsafe as possible while continuing to suppress wages.
There are far better ways to help workers who may be in dire straits but that requires making systemic changes instead of focusing on some gain for one individual. It's the same reason why charity is a bad mechanism for actual change