Saying employers "exploit" employees is asinine

[ziggytrix]

One definition of exploit is "To make use of selfishly or unethically".


By deciding to work for a given wage, the employee is literally making the decision that this time/labor he trades is equal to the payment he receives....otherwise, he would trade his time/labor elsewhere...


The fallacy of this statement is that labor is not a free market commodity that you can just pass around to the highest bidder. An unskilled factory worker in a third world country with a huge unemployment problem will take what work he can get, even if his boss treats him as little more than a slave.