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.
It comes down to this. If you can not choose then you are a slave, not a worker. If you can choose, then you are a worker. If you are a worker and choose to remain, you are not exploited.
I have worked for low wages and in a highly dangerous if not lethal environment (US Army Infantry). ~$700 / month before taxes for a 24 x 7 job - about $1.00 / hour.
Still, I was not exploited because I chose to accept those conditions.