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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you ask someone to work for you for full time hours, but don't pay them enough to reasonably sustain themselves, [b]you've essentially got yourself an indentured servant.[/b] Are we really okay with that as a country? Having an underclass of indentured servants that we allow the merchant class to abuse and treat however they want?[/quote]

If you offer someone a job and tell them upfront the wage you are willing to pay, and the person says YES to your offer, then you’ve got yourself an employee who has entered into an at-will agreement to work for you at the wage you both agreed upon.

And in most cases, the wage is very clearly indicated in the job posting. The “indentured servant” need not apply to that job of the wage is not suitable to them.[/quote]

You ignore the fact that people earning minimum wage 1. Have few employment prospects 2. Are likely already living in poverty and don't exactly have the option of being choosy. Do you know how hard it is for a homeless person to get a job? Someone on minimum wage is working multiple jobs to get by, and could be 1 emergency, 1 missed rent payment away from homelessness. Then their job prospects get infinely worse.

Stop acting like you don't understand that what you're presenting is a FALSE choice.

Sure, the newly freed slaves during reconstruction could have done whatever they wanted *in theory* but in reality, most of them entered into indentured servitude as sharecrippers for their former masters.

We've done this throughout our history. We present people with false choices and freedoms, then tsk tsk them for not succeeding against the system we've built to work against them.

People on this very thread have argued that small businesses can't succeed without this underclass of poverty wage workers. So which is it? Can they realistically say no, or not?[/quote]

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