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How can people be this ignorant. Literally everything you do requires somebody else labor. Many of those people get WAY less pay then the maid.

What's the implication, living in the wild by yourself? Because you don't want to be in a position to pay poor people?

Just because the maid comes to your house, and the people would build computers live in china does not change the basic economics. It only changes how it engages your sensible values.



How people can be so if ignorant about basics in inequality and exploitation.

You do understand most of the lowest level jobs are taken by people as matter of survival not because it's their life dream.

There is no implication. Just continuing the line of thought from the article. If you want to be happier you have to value your time more over money. What is missing in the article though is you fist need to be wealthy enough to be able to make such a choice. Many people can't make this choice they are forced to sell their time for survival money.


You have provided no counterargument to what I have said. Again, everything uses other peoples laber and many of those people are much poorer then any maid you can hire in a first world country.

So clearly you don't boycott all products that include labor from poor people, as you are typing this on some sort of computer I presume.

So again. Explain to me what the MORAL difference is between using somebodies labors by buying products, or coming to your house.


I wan't talking about moral. I can use computer made by poor people , and I can also talk about its problems. I don't need to take sides...

So.. everything uses others peoples labour. True. It's about how this labour is valued. The reason maid makes you happier is something like that: You make let's say 50$/hour, the maid charges let's say 25$/hour. So you work 1h, and you can pay the maid to clean your house for 2h. This makes sense, as you have one hour time left to do something else which makes you happy. Would you do it if the maid charges 50$/hour? Probably not, because this way you have to work 2h to pay for 2h of maids cleaning (and we don't even count taxes here).




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