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Because in a free market, “taking advantage of” someone else always involves them taking advantage of you too. It’s an exchange economy.

In a free market, being used means being paid.

If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.

Being exploited is always paired with exploiting the one exploiting you. That’s why we talk in terms of “jobs”. Trade: a two-way thing.

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TexMexBazooka@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
That’s some pretty serious mental gymnastics going that completely disregards how employee/employer relationships work in the real world.

If you really want to understand how conservatives think, you need to remember that we see our economy as a system of consensual trades between adults.

It’s not really “consensual” if the alternative is homelessness, starvation, and criminalization is it?

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