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The world is not black and white. Everything is shades of gray.

Some exploitation is more heinous than others.

If you’re chained to your 9 to 5, it sucks, but it’s not the end of the world.

If you’re a UN peacekeeper using candy to lure children into sexual relationships and then abandoning them and your resulting offspring (example taken from real world events), that is psycho/sociopath level exploitation.

If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?

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>If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?

No one should be harassed. I would rather the woman have the option of selling sex in a clean work environment with healthcare and some say in who she sells to than having to choose between sleeping with her landlord or being homeless.

By all means, lets keep UN peacekeepers out of USA. I wouldn't mind some UN election observers, however...

Trump won, let it go.

>If you’re a single mom and the landlord is harrasing you for sex to pay the rent, is that okay? Where do you place that on the exploitation scale?

People are in that situation where prostitution is illegal and they do it anyway. What's your alternative? To force the woman to do it in secret? To punish her and the John if they get caught? Should she be kicked out? The landlord made to accept no rent? The woman forced to spend another 20 hours at work away from her kids where she might've spent one or two?

It's a shame generally that people have to work for a living. I think that's one of the things "we" are racing to solve by improving technology and automation. I hope there'll be post-scarcity society with a basic income and nobody will be required to make any bad choices. We aren't there yet, so we should try to get there.

???

So men or women in the Congo, let's say someplace like Goma...

forced by warlords, let's say someone like Nkunda, to go into the mines... or die...

is less exploitative than a landlord asking a tenant for sex in your eyes?

Question was rhetorical. You obviously have a problem with the sexual dimension of the exploitation, and the people of eastern Congo don't face the choice of going into the mines or dying.

It's Nkunda... he offed them anyway, but they got to live a little longer if they went into the mines.

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