Poverty isn't a single state; it's a spectrum. If every company making maximally efficient decisions causes people to only have the option to take a wage that i

Poverty isn't a single state; it's a spectrum. If every company making maximally efficient decisions causes people to only have the option to take a wage that isn't enough to lift them from poverty or no wage at all, people will still take it. I'm not saying that I think you're wrong or right compared to the parent comment that responded to you; I just don't think it's obvious that something being more efficient inherently implies that it should be legal. Maybe I'm incorrectly inferring that you're stating that "trying to make this illegal would make the economy less efficient than it could be" is implying that this means that it would be bad to make it illegal, but it definitely sounds like that to me.