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"The more you work, the less you earn." You can't really grow in business without exploitation. Whether that's using "contractors" to deliver your packages, u
by 5350-uiop-1130 2y ago
"The more you work, the less you earn."
You can't really grow in business without exploitation.
Whether that's using "contractors" to deliver your packages, using monopoly to slurp people's data, sourcing minerals from african blood mines or using asian sweatshops to build your phones and clothes.
To me, corporate life has always been a race to see who gets exploited the most and who the least.
Sociopaths don't care about exploiting others. I would say the same for most people. We can usually rationalize the worst kind of things to ourselves when it suits us.
- bboygravity 2y agoThere's quite a difference between deliberately exploiting people you interact with in the real world all day every day for your own benefit and what you're mentioning. Buying an iPhone, not knowing that it was built using Chinese (semi-)slave labour is not quite the same as a manager who promotes easily exploitable (loser) over-achievers and uses "devide and conquer" on the rest of his underlings to make himself feel safe and comfy. All in the same office that everybody goes to every day. For decades.
- xyzzy4747 2y agoIt’s not exploiting if they voluntarily do it. The default state of humanity for thousands of years has been a lot of people living in mud houses and working all day to do subsistence farming and tending to livestock. Doesn’t sound like a great life, but they aren’t being “exploited” there either. It’s just people versus Mother Nature. However, many would gladly take 9-5 jobs in an air conditioned building instead, and live in nicer homes with utilities. It’s voluntary labor.