> As if the problem with slavery is that they aren't paid enough.

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398ja

Nothing appalls authoritarians more than voluntary interactions.

The term "slave wages" is one of the stronger signals that you're talking to a moron. As if the problem with slavery is that they aren't paid enough.

Undisciplined

Politics_And_Law

Enemies of Private Property Snitch on Small Businesses for "Price Gouging"

This reminds me of an argument I once had with a highly educated relative who was complaining that immigrants were being "exploited" on the job market with slave wages.

I was trying to explain to her that there's nothing fairer than a price when both parties voluntary agree, that the immigrants were getting exactly what they were worth that moment in time on the job market, and that the alternative, no job, would be far worse for them. I knew exactly, from personal experience, what I was talking about but my Harvard educated relative did not.

She was speechless, and could not understand that I confidently expressed such "horrible" views. We were not in good terms for several years after that incident.😅