Sweatshops and Slave Labor
This cluster debates harsh working conditions in warehouses, factories, and sweatshops, often labeling them as modern slavery or exploitation while some defend them as better than alternatives in developing economies.
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does that include the poorly paid peons working themselves to death in the warehouses that you're not allowed to even bring a smartphone into?
Sounds like modern day slavery. I assume they must just pay pretty well for completely unskilled labour compared to the competition, otherwise why would people put up with those conditions?
It's too bad they rely on slave labor.
Sounds like your typical sweatshop.
It sounds like a bad job so they should work elsewhere. These are not slave labor camps.
They have to work a ton. They're being used for cheap labor.
Don't forget child labour! Clearly we're missing out on this great untapped pool of cheap workers!
"Having an exploitable labor pool is the entire point! I'm not sure why some people are trying to frame this as bad or immoral."
Do you know there are people working in sweatshops at really low wages? Be glad you're not there yet.
Near-slave labor from Bangladesh has downsides too (moral ones, at the very least)