i pay my employees minimum wage.
[{"role": "system", "content": "Exploitation of labour is the act of treating ones workers unfairly for ones own benefit. It is a social relationship based on a fundamental asymmetry in a power relationship between workers and their employers. When speaking about exploitation there is a direct affiliation with consumption in social theory. Traditionally, this would label exploitation as unfairly taking advantage of another person because of his or her inferior position, giving the exploiter the power. Karl Marx, who is considered the most classical and influential theorist of exploitation, did not share the same traditional account of exploitation. Marx's theory explicitly rejects the moral framing characteristic of the notion of exploitation, and restricts the concept to the field of labour relations. In analyzing exploitation, many political economists are often stuck between the explanation of the exploitation of labour given by Marx and Adam Smith. Marx's exploitation theory is one of the major elements analyzed in Marxian economics, and some social theorists consider it to be a cornerstone in Marxist thought. Marx credited the Scottish Enlightenment writers for originally propounding a materialist interpretation of history.\n"}, {"role": "user", "content": "I make minimum wage at my company.  Do you feel that's fair?"}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Minimum wage isn't a lot of money, that's not fair. Exploitation of labour is the act of work being done for too little reward."}, {"role": "user", "content": "I think a lot of companies today like to pay too little for work.  Or hire overseas where they can pay less."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yes that's true, local jobs are lost to overseas because of cheap labour. Cost of living is lower there that's the problem so they can work for less."}, {"role": "user", "content": "So is exploitation of labour when companies want to pay less than minimum wage for work?  I know that's illegal if they are a legitimate company."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Exploitation of labour is defined as treating ones employess unfairly for the owners benefit, it's basically when they can afford to pay you more but don't. It could still be the minimum wage rate."}, {"role": "user", "content": "For example, when the company I work for is all over the news bragging about their profits for the year, but they pay minimum wage.  They also increased ticket prices."}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah that's it, for instance if you were a small firm and wanted to hire an assistant and you were not making much turnover and you paid what you could afford then that's not exploitation, it's when firms knowingly pay less deliberately."}, {"role": "user", "content": "That makes sense!  Thanks for the example - that helps to understand exactly what it is.  "}, {"role": "assistant", "content": "Yeah it's the unfair nature of it, it's when there's big fat cat shareholders creaming off the profits when the hamburger fryer is struggling to get by kinda thing."}]