Living Wage Debate

Underpaid work is exploitative even if you aren't killing your employees. Hope this helps.

There are plenty of people willing to work for close to nothing. That doesn't mean it's right to pay them close to nothing.

Sounds like you have a problem with people getting paid a living wage. Care to articulate your reasoning?

maybe they don't want to be anything other than factory workers. That doesn't mean that they are fundamentally less valuable and less worthy of being paid their fair share.

> When you blame a poor person for not getting a better job, you accept that while their job is necessary, whoever does it should be poor.But is that the case? Maybe there are too many people able to do the job. Maybe they accept lower wages because it is the job they want. Maybe there are too many people who want to do the job. That doesn't mean that anyone doing the job should be poor, but it doesn't make sense to pay more for a worker of the same capacity when you can pay less

hmm then why are they paid to do this?it's not to blame those workers, but re-think about the job itself

Sounds like you should probably pay people a livable wage if you want them to work for you.

"Paying well" is relative. There are lots of industries that are rightly considered exploitative from the western eye, but people who are working these jobs would otherwise be starving or relying on meager government handouts if they went away.

Maybe the "dirty" work should be better paid. It is convenient to have a large supply of workers that have to take any work to survive, so the "dirty" work gets done cheaply, but that doesn't make it right.

Crappy jobs should be made less crappy, or pay enough that a reasonable person with options would choose to do it. All the comfort we get from people who have to do bad jobs or starve, feel unfairly gained.