A person who ACCEPTS “bad” working conditions is not exploited. If the person is unable to REJECT their working conditions (usually by leaving their employment), they are a slave.
“slave” and “worker” are not the same word and have different meanings. Slaves can be exploited, that is part and parcel of the term “slave”. Workers requires acceptance of the work conditions. A worker that does not accept their work conditions or compensation leaves that situation and is then, no longer a worker. A person who CAN NOT leave their conditions is a slave.
Confusing the two terms is a common tactic of the left. In their Socialist/Marxist/Communist diplopia world view, people who accept less than optimal conditions are being exploited - when often that is not the truth. The truth is that the worker has agreed and accepted the work conditions as they meet the person’s needs. For example, Walmart is often used as the measure of exploited workers by the left. Yet anyone of those workers are free to leave the employment of Walmart and seek other positions.
That is not exploitation. That is the market condition and the supply and demand of labor skills coming into play.
You will never be paid more than it costs to replace your skills and value that you bring to the company.
You will never be paid less than what you are willing to work for.
This is so perfect. Even if he dies, because then he's not aworker. Yeah, I get it.
And no matter how low the wages go, and how lethal the working conditions get, it's never exploitative because it was chosen every single time!
American agricultural employers using contratistas to bring in wave after wave of workers to underbid each other, forcing wages down, down, down for what are already the lowest-paid and most hazardous jobs in America--- that's OK because the workers chose it! If they didn't like it, they could leave their jobs!
So maybe they do leave their jobs and end up on welfare (or maybe SSI-Disability payments for work-related injury) in Bakersfield or Oakland by the hundreds of thousands. Is that exploiting YOU, the American taxpayer who's picking up the tab on the Section 8's, SSI's and EBT's?
Why, no! It happens you voted for it, or the representatives chosen by the class known as "voters" voted for it, and in practice you pay for it and tolerate it. If you don't like it, you could always leave the country.
Choice. Sweet.