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It's time we at Philosophy Bites confess our guilty little secret.

We don't pay Philosophy B its contributors the minimum wage.

In fact we don't pay them anything at all.

Are we thereby exploiting them?

It's often said that desperately poor people who sell their organs for money,

or women who sell sexual services, or workers who work long hours for next to no remuneration are exploited.

But if they've entered these agreements voluntarily, how can it be exploitation?

Presumably the low-paid worker believes that some work, however low-paid, is better than no work.

In exchange for a disquisition on exploitation, we offered Emeritus Professor Hillel Steiner, a glass of water.

Hilll Steiner, welcome to Philosophy Pites.

Thank you very much, and I'm pleased to be here.

We're going to talk about exploitation. What is exploitation? Well I guess the most general

definition is an exchange of two things, goods or services, of unequal value, and I would want to say a voluntary

exchange of two things of unequal value.

Could you give an example of that?

I think a standard one would be the wages compared to the products of many workers in the

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