Well, I bet the people doing those jobs in the Philippines are stoked. Probably a decent wage for them with currency conversion and the cost of living in the Philippines. Though of course, they could AT LEAST be paying them the American minimum wage :| 7.25/h in the Philippines would be pretty spicy. The work they are doing IS being done in America*…
Exploitation is a bit finicky to define. Unless a laborer gets all of the value of the labor they produce, or they’re in a worker co-operative, exactly at point would you define a job as exploitation? Paying the lowest labor cost is just good business sense. Free market allocation of resources has been the most efficient system humanity has found for economic growth. China does have capitalistic attributes in its society, and they are the closest to a “communist” society that exists on the planet. Though of course, regulatory capture, and as it is called in Hamburgerland “too big to fail” corporations, implies that we do NOT have an actual free market, the Gamestop saga being a shining example of this.
So, at what point would you define something as labor exploitation? There are some obvious examples of it (child coal mine/meat processing/textile workers etc), but where is the line?
Well, I bet the people doing those jobs in the Philippines are stoked. Probably a decent wage for them with currency conversion and the cost of living in the Philippines. Though of course, they could AT LEAST be paying them the American minimum wage :| 7.25/h in the Philippines would be pretty spicy. The work they are doing IS being done in America*…
Yeah, that’s how labor exploitation works
Exploitation is a bit finicky to define. Unless a laborer gets all of the value of the labor they produce, or they’re in a worker co-operative, exactly at point would you define a job as exploitation? Paying the lowest labor cost is just good business sense. Free market allocation of resources has been the most efficient system humanity has found for economic growth. China does have capitalistic attributes in its society, and they are the closest to a “communist” society that exists on the planet. Though of course, regulatory capture, and as it is called in Hamburgerland “too big to fail” corporations, implies that we do NOT have an actual free market, the Gamestop saga being a shining example of this.
So, at what point would you define something as labor exploitation? There are some obvious examples of it (child coal mine/meat processing/textile workers etc), but where is the line?