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Quote from: Nicolas Dorier on August 14, 2014, 11:29:08 AM

At a restaurant you trade money against a good meal. Wealth just got created.
You valued your money less than the meal, and the cook valued the meal less than the money. The sum of the difference of valuation is wealth.

Not all trade is equal. Most of the time there is a power relationship where the strong exploits the weak.

An example is sweatshops. People who need jobs are willing to allow themselves to be exploited because they need money. This was common in 19th/ early 20th century before existence of labor unions

how is a sweatshop exploiting anyone if they agree to work there out of their own free will, without the sweatshop they would be worse off.

Do you believe its ethical to exploit desperate people? Free will is just a red herring

Not everyone whos working for a much lower paycheck is desperate, since the costs of living vary across the globe.
Thats why Indians are working for pennies , and still manage to live on that pretty good.

It is in the hands of the working people to fight for their rights, but they dont do so, they just keep hoping someone else is going to fight their fight, and that is why most of them are poor and unsatisfied.
Its every man for himself, and if ure not though, ull get overruned by stronger ones, just like in wild nature.

Have you even been to India and other developing world? Most people in the 3rd world have to struggle constantly to get food on the table in case you do not know.