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Aella
@Aella_Girl
Imagine if an advanced alien race lived nearby, and hired us to do things for them remotely; the jobs are good enough you choose to work there instead of other options. But then the aliens are like "your working conditions are bad by our standards, we're gonna stop hiring you"
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Aella
@Aella_Girl
you'd prob be like, damn, while I don't object to better working conditions, you just took away what was clearly my top choice based on me choosing that, and the other human options around here are less good for me. You're clearly just trying to make urselves feel better.
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Dillon
@DillonCasey
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@Aella_Girl
And also those aliens had the same working conditions years before when they were developing and once they developed to the society they are now, their conditions (and quality of life) drastically improved along with them.
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Tom Bombadil
@Authw8
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@Aella_Girl
So the leftist counter-metaphor here is it's more like you're enjoying your nice job with good benefits, then the aliens appear, put you out of work, and the only job left is to go work in a sweatshop making widgets for some inscrutable alien ritual.
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@slinkymonkey
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@Aella_Girl
(Possible) Plot Twist: the humans didn’t have a choice in the matter/initially chose it thinking it was their top choice, then found out it was actually twice the work for slightly less pay and no say in the matter 🤐 how are we ever to know? 🤷‍♂️
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Samuel Schoenberg
@__Sam_I_am__
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@Aella_Girl
I think much of the problem IRL is that labor is the only way most people can obtain wealth. If we had another way to distribute our wealth, then we could just take their cheap labor and all be better off for it.
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@DiracWinsAgain
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@Aella_Girl
This is the sort of thing I'm always tempted to link the '96 UNICEF report regarding. But, everyone, including myself, is decidedly uncomfortable with the idea that Congressional action on sweatshop directly lead to a bunch of children starving