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My point is that an hourly rate can be exploitative even if it is the highest in the area.



I know, and my point is that's wrong.

A wage that just lifted someone out of poverty isn't exploitative by definition, unless we've mangled the definition of exploitation beyond recognition and we're trying to incentivize behavior with our language that literally creates more poverty.




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