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The sex workers aren't legally speaking staff. It's a platform that takes a cut like all the app stores.
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It’s not exploitation unless the participants in the deal are being coerced. You can’t make a solid case for employees being coerced to work for an exploitative employer outside of company towns or non-functioning labor markets; neither of these apply to the Philippines.

If the chatter thought the job was so bad, they can quit and get a different one. Millions of people make that choice, it is available to them. There is no requirement that they do this work; it is entirely voluntary. The people doing these jobs have determined that it is the best option for them, personally, or they wouldn’t be there.

PS: $2-4/hr is a decent wage in the Philippines.

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> unless the participants in the deal are being coerced.

Here's the nice thing about it: they are! If they don't work (for any of the equally exploitative companies in their country) they die.

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They are being coerced to participate in the capitalist system, maybe. Not to be a “chatter”.

No argument against protections, though.

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And yet lots of people don't work for companies and still manage not to die. I wonder how they do it? A mystery, I guess.
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Yes, everyone should become a one-person company!
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The requirement is that they not starve, not be made homeless, and not be forced into even less appealing and/or more dangerous work.

The coercion comes from the very limited choices they have to avoid that.

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Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it is the reverse.
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So what you are saying is that, under communism, women exploit women and men bear the children?

I know Projet de communauté philosophe is utopian, but I don't think that is the story it tells. Maybe something got lost in translation?

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