> If an owner will not pay a worker a fair wage, some might find profiting from their undervalued labor as morally abhorrent. What if the surplus value extract

> If an owner will not pay a worker a fair wage, some might find profiting from their undervalued labor as morally abhorrent. What if the surplus value extracted does not exceed a fair wage? If a fair wage - however you define that - is still required, then the likely result is that the value goes entirely unextracted. This brings us to a basic philosophical question: is a laborer who is unemployed better off than one being exploited for an "unfair" wage?