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b_b  ·  3887 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: An interesting question

    If your skills were valuable enough to be worth paying for, someone would pay for them.

Really? Isn't that why we outlawed slavery? Because those with power used it to exploit those without? There are myriad examples of people not getting paid for work while others profit from it (i.e. the labor is valuable, but the worker lacks the resources to harvest value from it). Did the cotton picker's value to the labor market suddenly increase after the 14th Amendment was passed?