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But that's precisely wage slavery. It's using the threat of total unemployment (and therefore hunger and homelessness) to get away with offering shitty wages an
by lukev 15y ago
But that's precisely wage slavery. It's using the threat of total unemployment (and therefore hunger and homelessness) to get away with offering shitty wages and horrific working conditions.
It may be free market economics, but that doesn't mean it's morally right.
- ars 15y agoYou make it sound like there is just one employer in the area. And if there was just one, I'd agree with you. But there isn't, there are lots of employers, and people pick the best. If no one would be willing to go to the worst (or that employer only gets the worst employees) that employer would change their practices, and thus you get progress. There is a balance here that is virtually impossible to change from the outside. People get exactly the working conditions they are willing to accept. And the working conditions they are willing accept are match the living conditions they are in.
- socially-distnt 15y agojust go to where the jobs are, duh!