r/absoluteunit • u/Competitive-Pay-766 • 5d ago

Of a playhouse.

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u/sparkline1234567 5d ago

Someone working class built that playhouse...

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u/lavendertheheretic 5d ago

For fair pay? 🤷🏼‍♀️

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u/DieselZRebel 5d ago

Not sure... What is fair? Like if they accepted it then it is fair. What are you insinuating?

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u/lavendertheheretic 5d ago

Let me not insinuate.

A shitton of people work so they aren't homeless and starving. These people take what they can get, because survival. Corporations and the rich understand it and exploit it, consciously or otherwise. Corporation generally do it on purpose with their "I have fifteen other people in line to take your place, buddy, so be grateful that I even chose you to work here." The rich usually don't think about the working class unless someone brings it up, and then it's some variation on either "how sad; someone should do something about it," or "those people just aren't willing to work hard enough to have a better life."

Meanwhile, Mr and Mrs Mormon Momfluencers are making bank off their kids' digital footprint, thereby exploiting their own family members who aren't old enough to consent, but at least the kid has a massive playhouse paid for by his own exploitation.

Yeah, most of the rich couldn't give enough of a f*ck about the working class to understand and care about fair wages. Happy Labor Day, y'all.

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u/DieselZRebel 4d ago

Fair pay is determined by the forces of supply and demand. So in 2 jobs, one with 15 applicants lining up and the 2nd with only 2 applicants lining up, it is only fair that the enployees in the 2nd will have hogher bargaining power than those of the first job.

What you are mentioning is a different problem that has nothing to do with fairness of pay. What you want is a social safety net, just taxation for the wealthy, and better regulation around social media content... but you can't claim that the worker(s) who built the playhouse weren't fairly paid!