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The article describes someone exploiting an unfair advantage and then says they are "worse off" when they are situationally forced to stop that exploitation.

This is a horrible perspective. Exploiting another person's need to survive in order to gain unlimited labour is akin to slavery.

Serious question: Is there an ethics course for popular economics?

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Exploiting someone's need to survive for labor is what the modern labor market is

being materially worse off or better off is orthogonal to ethical concerns. you will miss out on a lot of important analysis if you refuse to consider cases where people make unethical choices to follow incentives.

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