I reject your implied premise than an adult man that agrees to build the toy for X wage, is being “oppressed” or whatever. Man A (the toy company owner) doesnt owe man B (a random man) anything upon merely existing. When man A then says “i will pay X wage to make my toy” if man B accepts, nothing “unethical” has occured. “Why this?!? Why that!” Are you unaware of things like game theory or biology?
Man A is abusing Man B’s ignorance of his own worth. Man A is also colluding with his competitors to make sure Man B can’t make more anywhere else. Man A is also always, always, ALWAYS, supressing Man B’s opportunities to unite with his fellow workers, either by union busting, or by lobbying to destroy the education system that would allow Man B to inform himself of his actual worth.
But I guess if we only look at billionaires with a 2 dimensional perspective, and ignore all the things they do to make sure their employees couldn’t possibly demand more money, then billionaires look like they’re just giving people job opportunities…
But if they paid their employees their worth, they may only have money for the next 20 generations instead of 40…
The idea that every company is price fixing with every competitor is retarded. C’mon, man. “Abusing man B’s ignorance”, what exactly is he ignorant of? Man A can straight up tell him “i will sell for Y, do you agree to make for X?” And man B will still accept. Did you think every non-billionaire was retarded? You make a lot of claims that are impossible to be true (every company is price fixing. Every non-billionaire is ignorant). There is no such thing as “what man B is worth”. What he is “worth” is what they negotiate and he accepts. If man B accepts working for $1 an hour, that is what he is worth. He doesnt have an intrinsic salary value by merely existing. If he says “I am worth $1 million a year to clean toilets” but nobody agrees to pay him $1 million a year to clean toilets, he is objectively not worth $1 million a year to clean toilets (and cleaning toilets might be his most useful skill)
I reject your implied premise than an adult man that agrees to build the toy for X wage, is being “oppressed” or whatever. Man A (the toy company owner) doesnt owe man B (a random man) anything upon merely existing. When man A then says “i will pay X wage to make my toy” if man B accepts, nothing “unethical” has occured. “Why this?!? Why that!” Are you unaware of things like game theory or biology?
Man A is abusing Man B’s ignorance of his own worth. Man A is also colluding with his competitors to make sure Man B can’t make more anywhere else. Man A is also always, always, ALWAYS, supressing Man B’s opportunities to unite with his fellow workers, either by union busting, or by lobbying to destroy the education system that would allow Man B to inform himself of his actual worth.
But I guess if we only look at billionaires with a 2 dimensional perspective, and ignore all the things they do to make sure their employees couldn’t possibly demand more money, then billionaires look like they’re just giving people job opportunities…
But if they paid their employees their worth, they may only have money for the next 20 generations instead of 40…
The idea that every company is price fixing with every competitor is retarded. C’mon, man. “Abusing man B’s ignorance”, what exactly is he ignorant of? Man A can straight up tell him “i will sell for Y, do you agree to make for X?” And man B will still accept. Did you think every non-billionaire was retarded? You make a lot of claims that are impossible to be true (every company is price fixing. Every non-billionaire is ignorant). There is no such thing as “what man B is worth”. What he is “worth” is what they negotiate and he accepts. If man B accepts working for $1 an hour, that is what he is worth. He doesnt have an intrinsic salary value by merely existing. If he says “I am worth $1 million a year to clean toilets” but nobody agrees to pay him $1 million a year to clean toilets, he is objectively not worth $1 million a year to clean toilets (and cleaning toilets might be his most useful skill)