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[–] Schmoo@slrpnk.net 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Are you incapable of holding two ideas in your head simultaneously? I agree that capitalism / the relationship between employers and their employees is inherently exploitative and I'm opposed to all forms of unaccountable hierarchy. I also believe capitalism places capital owners in a position to make a lot of moral decisions and that they can make better or worse ones, even if what they are doing is morally compromising from the outset.

To give a clear and exaggerated example, imagine a slaver who owns a few slaves that they treat with backhanded politeness and allow to stay in a room of their mansion and eat with them, and a slaver who owns dozens of slaves on a plantation that they regularly abuse physically and mentally and are kept in a shitty barracks with a dirt floor and fed scraps. Both are engaging in a morally repugnant one-sided and non-consensual relationship, but one is clearly worse than the other. It doesn't make it excusable, but people in a position of power and authority over others can make better or worse moral decisions, even if the fact that they are allowed to make them unilaterally is morally wrong in itself.