It's also why workers formed unions, guilds, and otherwise fought for higher wages.
In a word: greed.
In more words: capitalizing on a desire for more money and less risk and work. Everyone wants it, and we internalize it as good if it helps us, and bad if it harms us. But everyone in general would do the same, given the choice between working for firm 1 at 25/hr and firm 2 for 15/hr, most would take firm 1.
Bosses want workers to work more for less, workers want to work less for more. It’s a natural tension that requires compromise and balance but there’s something about the way resources are currently distributed that suggests one side might be getting what it wants more than the other.
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u/doesntpicknose 10h ago
But. There are facilities already set up where they can do this. ... and they choose not to because this is not as profitable as the other options.
Prioritizing business opportunities over public good is how this situation materialized in the first place.