[yellowbuilding]

Labor rights have a very long history worth learning about. The short of it is that profit from labor is definitional exploitation; the question is how much exploitation we consider economically useful.

[masonic]

They should be happy to not be exploited anymore, then.

[jpxw]

This is ridiculous. These engineers are on >100k$ per year and could quit and get employed almost instantly elsewhere at any time. It’s not “exploitation”.

[monocasa]

Just because they make a high salary, doesn't mean they're not exploited. Remember that wage fixing scheme where the big tech companies had been found to be suppressing wages by about 20% with mutual non solicits?

[smolder]

This is obviously relative. If someone generates 200k of value and gets 100k in benefit, they are being exploited for that other 100k. That's by definition, as the parent says.